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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 4449041, member: 57495&quot;]Ask Robert Kokotailo! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>For what it&#039;s worth, yours still looks like lamination damage to me.&nbsp; I think I may actually have a better candidate for the sort of fourree that Robert is highlighting in the coin below.&nbsp; Interestingly, when I first looked at it in hand, I had thought fourree too, but others suggested it might be lamination damage.&nbsp; It&#039;s from the Pozzi collection, and the possibility of it being a fourree was not mentioned in the original Boutin catalog or the sale where I purchased it.</p><p>&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1110932[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>LUCANIA, Metapontion</b></p><p>AR (Fourrée?) Didrachm. 7.72g, 20.5mm. LUCANIA, Metapontion, circa 340-330 BC. HN Italy 1576; Johnston Class B, 3.16; Pozzi (Boutin) 499 (<i>this coin</i>). O: ΛEYKIΠΠOΣ, Bearded head of Leukippos to right, wearing Corinthian helmet; behind, dog seated to left; below neck, Σ. R: META, Barley ear with leaf to right; above leaf, dove alighting right; below leaf, AMI.</p><p><i>Ex Prof. Samuel-Jean Pozzi Collection (Boutin), 499</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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