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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3018334, member: 19463"]No one seems to answer just how the transfer dies were made with the technology then current. I disagree that most fourrees are great style matching the official. I do believe that the more coins of a period one handles, the more one sees differences. This reminds me of my greater willingness to be fooled by modern fakes of coin I do not know well than by those of series I have studied. For example, I see more danger in the Slavei's of Augustus and Caligula than of Pescennius and Pertinax. I am really fooled by some of his Greeks but have never touched a real Syracuse dekadrachm and never plan on owning one. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have never had any respect to any authority who uses the argument that anything he does not know is not worth knowing. Unofficial items have been a part of circulating money since the beginning of money. It is very unlikely that we will ever know the whole story of even a small period of unofficial items but to stick ones head in the sand and declare that you do not care is not the way knowledge is advanced. </p><p><br /></p><p>I like my fourrees but I <u>really</u> like my obviously unofficial coins made of metal as good as the 'real thing'. They are just as ignored by mainstream experts but may not have been made for exactly the same reasons. I don't know. I would like to know more. Studying them will take generations. </p><p>Tiberius</p><p>[ATTACH=full]749867[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Faustina I</p><p>[ATTACH=full]749868[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Faustina II sestertius</p><p>[ATTACH=full]749869[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Commodus</p><p>[ATTACH=full]749879[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Septimius Severus (2)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]749870[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]749871[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Julia Domna</p><p>[ATTACH=full]749872[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Caracalla</p><p>[ATTACH=full]749873[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3018334, member: 19463"]No one seems to answer just how the transfer dies were made with the technology then current. I disagree that most fourrees are great style matching the official. I do believe that the more coins of a period one handles, the more one sees differences. This reminds me of my greater willingness to be fooled by modern fakes of coin I do not know well than by those of series I have studied. For example, I see more danger in the Slavei's of Augustus and Caligula than of Pescennius and Pertinax. I am really fooled by some of his Greeks but have never touched a real Syracuse dekadrachm and never plan on owning one. I have never had any respect to any authority who uses the argument that anything he does not know is not worth knowing. Unofficial items have been a part of circulating money since the beginning of money. It is very unlikely that we will ever know the whole story of even a small period of unofficial items but to stick ones head in the sand and declare that you do not care is not the way knowledge is advanced. I like my fourrees but I [U]really[/U] like my obviously unofficial coins made of metal as good as the 'real thing'. They are just as ignored by mainstream experts but may not have been made for exactly the same reasons. I don't know. I would like to know more. Studying them will take generations. Tiberius [ATTACH=full]749867[/ATTACH] Faustina I [ATTACH=full]749868[/ATTACH] Faustina II sestertius [ATTACH=full]749869[/ATTACH] Commodus [ATTACH=full]749879[/ATTACH] Septimius Severus (2) [ATTACH=full]749870[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]749871[/ATTACH] Julia Domna [ATTACH=full]749872[/ATTACH] Caracalla [ATTACH=full]749873[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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