Ancient => 1-2-3-Fourrée!!

Okay, here is a stupid (stevex6) question

=> ummm, did they strike the bronze coin and then add the silver coating? (or strike the silver coated flan?)

Hi

 

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See p. 9 of the link Doug provided

 

I have a web site on ancient imitations:

http://esty.ancients.info/imit/

The pages on Republican, 12 Caesars, and second century imitations have quite a few silver-plated fourrees. Here is one where the obverse is still mostly silvered but the reverse shows the plating broken.

 

Of all the coins in the catalog, I wasn't expecting this one to be the x6 pickup, but I guess it's no surprise you scored an interesting and eye-appealing one.

I bought my first fourree before I even knew what a fourree was. Doh....



And then there was the one I tried to clean thinking it might an authentic coin and not a fourree. Double doh! This is how that one ended up...

 

HIP HIP FOUREE!

Nice coin Steve - I like the reveal of the underlying base metal.

 

Here's one I have of Trajan with typos:


Trajan
AD 98-117
Fouree Denarius

O: NERVAI TRAIAN AVG GER DAC*, laureate bust right

R: PM TR P COS VI PP SPRQ PT* Providence with spear and globe, PRO VID surrounding


I'm really curious as to what was going on with the reverse here. I think they were going for the legend "PM TR P COS VI PP SPQR," but it's weird that they not only transposed a couple of letters, but added a couple more.

*I should note that a few bits are kind of hard to read due to where the silver has broken off, so I'm not 100% certain of either of these full legends, and am open to suggestions if you think I misread something.

 

Thank you TIF!
The link will explain several different methods. The common one is like wrapping a chocolate disk in aluminum foil and then smashing it with a hot iron until the foil sticks.

 

WOW. It seems I just missed a whole lot of banter and word play.....Amusing stuff guys!!

My sole fouree...For some reason I convinced myself I should have at least one.

Roman Republic. Fufia 1, c. 70 BC Fouree Denarius. Rome Mint. 17.28 mm, 2.03g. Jugate heads of Honos and Virtus ----Roma and Italy hand in hand. Syd 797

 

Good one

 

Oh also how can you tell what year it is.

 

In my case, (as with this Roman Republic Fouree) Dilly dollar, I let the 'experts' attribute it for me and it is they who determine the circa 70 BC date....With Imperial coins, I use the TR P, COS and the IMP inscriptions in determining the year a coin was struck....

 

Cool. I'd like to get into ancient coins.

 

Sounds good Dilly Dollar. If interested, make a new thread and we can help advise you, if you so wish.

 

Ok sure

 

TIF => man, it almost seems personal, eh?

Did you just bid on one coin and got sniped, or were you sniped more than once by your nemesis?

 

TIF and I split our troops and went for two different targets within a couple of minutes of each other. Clio took us both out and didn't even break a sweat. CLIOOOOOOO!!!

 

Nerva fouree

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Coin: Silver Fouree Denarius Anct Fake
IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR PII COS III PP
Nerva laureatte right
PONT MAX????? COS II
Pax standing left with branch and cornucopia
Wt./Size: 2.57g / 19mm /


The rainbow colours of this coin are dazzling. I would love to clean the coin up, but I don't want to risk losing them.

I absolutely love this coin. The skullduggery, the theft, smuggling the dies out to a quiet place, the forging of a forged coin. It has everything.

 

Not personal... he cuts a wide swath through each auction.

I only bid on one coin. In retrospect, I should have known a much larger bid would be required to win it but there wasn't much pre-auction action. The only consolation is knowing that since Clio won, the odds of me outbidding him were slim even if I had bid much higher.

A concerned office staff member was compelled to ask who Clio is since every couple of weeks they hear me shrieking his name.

 

One has to wonder if Clio knows he has this effect or if he is just bidding so high on so many coins that he is bound to get you.

 

=> he's kinda like Gulliver and you and Z-bro are mere Lilliputians!!





"TIF, get out of the way => it's Clio!!"