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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4448938, member: 75937&quot;]I <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-plated-fouree-in-circulation.339400/#post-3535888" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-plated-fouree-in-circulation.339400/#post-3535888">have wondered</a> if this Hadrian denarius was a fourée because the surface metal has bubbled up in various places and cracked on the obverse and reverse. It&#039;s a bit underweight, too. However, other members, such as [USER=85693]@Marsyas Mike[/USER] and [USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER] suggested this was due to planchet lamination.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, in light of Robert Kokotailo&#039;s information, I&#039;m back to wondering if it&#039;s a fourée.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/hadrian-aegyptos-denarius-jpg.939862/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Hadrian, AD 117-138.</p><p>Roman (fourée?) denarius, 2.98 g, 17.7 mm, 7 h.</p><p>Rome mint copy, ca. AD 138.</p><p>Obv: HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P, laureate head, right.</p><p>Rev: AEGYPTOS, Egypt reclining left, holding sistrum and leaning on basket, around which a snake coils. Ibis on left, facing right.</p><p>Refs: RIC 296, BMCRE 801-804, RCV 3456, Strack 294.</p><p>Notes: Underweight. The metal surface has bubbled away from the core and cracked in front of the portrait on the obverse and above the sistrum and in the exergue on the reverse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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