英语释义
1. an added mark designed to secure greater safety or more complete identification:
2. a mark put on a package of goods belonging to several persons to show that it may not be opened except in the presence of all
3. a hallmark added to that of the artificer of gold or silver work
4. an artificial cavity formerly made in the teeth of horses to disguise their age — compare bishop entry 3
5. a mark on a coin that is not part of the original design but that has been added as indication of a change in the coin's value, in its issuing authority, or in its country of circulation
The 18 stiver coin of St. Martin issued in 1809 shows a bundle of arrows as countermark.
6. a mark on a coin added as attestation of purity or standard value chop mark
7. to apply a countermark to
countermark silverware Coins were countermarked with a “V”.