More fun with fourees: can anyone identify this?

Nice fourrees @Theodosius

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Sweet!! => Theo, those are very cool OP-fourrees ... the BD freaks me out a bit, but as long as you stop it in its tracks those'll be great collection-additions!!

... super cool

Okay fine, I can't help myself (I just love them sooooo much!!)

=> here are my two counterfeit babies!!




go on!! => go play with your new fourree buddies

 

I have only one but it serves triple duty: fourree, mule, and part of my "Alternate Modes of Transportation" set


Roman Republic fourée mule denarius
L. Antestius Gragulus, 136 BCE, and C. Renius, 138 BCE
ancient forgery, 3.18 gm
Obv: Roma helmeted head right, * below chin, GRAG behind
Rev: Juno Caprotina in a biga of goats, C・RENI below, ROMA in exergue
Ref: Obverse S.115, Cr.238/1, Syd.451, RSC Antestia 9; Reverse S.108, Cr.231/1, Syd.432, RSc Renia 1

 

Hey kids, don't play with Marsha's coin (it thinks it's all-that and a bag o' chips!!)

 

Well, then my coin isn't going to invite yours to the big dance this weekend.

 

your coin is a total bitch



just jokes => have a great weekend, my sweet coin-friend

 

No new fourree's here, but I did add that odd-looking 'faked' denarius of Octavian recently......Hmm, I think that makes three for me (all 'Republicans'...not a Democrat among them) and all complain that 'Marsha's ' coin is a bit 'stuck-up' ----probably just jealous

Oh, I just noticed a COS on the reverse of your possible M, Aurelius ....and if it's COS I then I think that would place it about 139-140 AD and as Caesar---or an imitation of it anyway. Just an 'educated guess' .....

 

Here's some some fourrees and their authentic counterparts from my collection. I swear the obverse of the Brutus/Casca Longus on top is made from the same die as the authentic one. Probably just a transfer copy of the same dies, but what if Brutus was salting the mintage with some fourrees to make is silver go a bit further?

 

Wow very cool examples Carthago! The Brutus does look like a match. Making fourrees to release with the good coins may have been a forerunner to debasing?