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>>56767241
>Are those countermarks on the left & bottom sides?

Yessir, 4 different countermarks, which all thankfully left the slinger and triskelion (the subjects on the coin most important to me essentially untouched.

In pic is a 28.43g, 31mm cast lead sling bullet from the 4th-3rd century BC with an embossed 3-legged Triskelion motif, a symbol prevalent in the ancient world but which was used as the city symbol for Aspendos and neighboring Selge in Asia Minor and reportedly painted on the shields of their soldiers. From what I have read, the slinger-mercenaries of Aspendos were highly skilled and effective so they were sought out and hired by other polities, with them being held in such esteem that those silver staters depicting a slinger holding his sling overhead and the Triskelion symbol of the city in the field were the standard large silver coinage struck there for over a century. I can't prove it, but I'm quite certain that this sling bullet embossed with the triskelion was made and used by the slinger-mercenaries of Aspendos, and that bullets just like it would have been carried in the bullet pouches and launched from the slings of men like the slinger depicted on their coinage. The coins cost more but the bullet is the best of only 2 I've ever seen, definitely much more rare.

>>49420409
>>49420434
Why wouldn't you?