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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4449276, member: 19463&quot;]<a href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan10308" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan10308" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan10308</a></p><p>The best reference for fourree coins is Campbell which is now available online.&nbsp; He cut a lot of coins in half and photographed the cross sections for study.&nbsp; In all honesty, I can not accept any opinion on the matter unless one has read Campbell or conducted similar studies on their own.&nbsp; I agree with Z regarding the Hadrian but am not sure that his Metapontion is not just a surface enrichment artifact.&nbsp; I bought the Kroton stater below from NFA in 1990.&nbsp; It was identified as a fourree.&nbsp; I believe it is what you get if you clean horn silver too harshly and break through the surface enriched top layer.&nbsp; To prove the matter, I would have to cut the thing in half.&nbsp; My curiosity is not that deep.&nbsp; I say the same thing regarding Z&#039;s coin and trust he will similarly avoid the urge&nbsp; to chop.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1110942[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Similarly, I have questions about the Trajan denarius below. It has a volcano shaped bubble behind the head of Trajan which could betray a core below but it also might be a bit of copper in the alloy that was not sufficiently heated to blend properly and erupted after eroding.&nbsp; I see the Hadrian in similar light but again suggest we not go around cutting coins in half to prove these things.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1110943[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>When I wrote my several pages on fourrees in 1997, I believed the Trajan was fourree but today I am tending toward the impurity eruption theory.&nbsp; I would be wrong at least once either way.&nbsp; On the off chance there is anyone who cares and has not seen my pages, start here and follow all the links to the other pages.</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fourree.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fourree.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fourree.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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