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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hotwheelsearl, post: 7499991, member: 75143&quot;]Great post! I&#039;ve never intentionally purchased a limes, although I see to end up with several anyways.</p><p><br /></p><p>My opinion on their usage: since they looked relatively identical to official silver products, I suppose that they served a similar purpose to the Hawaii/North Africa silver certificates from WWII - identical overall appearance, but different enough that they could be easily identified.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the border frontier fell to the barbs, the emperor could easily issue an edict that all limes in circulation would have to be returned to the imperial mint, by the soldier himself, for a one-to-one exchange with an official denarius. Any commerce with them would be outlawed, and they would be withdrawn from circulation. Any non-soldier with a limes would be investigated for fraud.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my Geta, in a rather awful pot metal alloy:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1296243[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a Caracalla, with a rather interesting thin silver wash, not unlike those found on later antoniniani:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1296244[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And here&#039;s a completely bronze 7Sev. I doubt this was ever plated or washed, and likely circulated as simply a bronze coin.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1296245[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>In every Limes I&#039;ve ever seen, the artistry is high and the coins are often die matches, or close-to-die matches to official silver coins. I highly doubt that forgers would have been talented enough to engrave at this level. The possibility of stolen dies is possible, since there are often muled coins with reverses that, for example, never existed in conjunction with the obverses.</p><p>But, I can&#039;t imagine a die theft epidemic so dramatic that it would produce the number of limes coins that we see.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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