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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 4630194, member: 44316&quot;]There is a difference between counterfeit coins intended to make a profit by deception (say, fourees with less silver than official coins) and imitations unofficially produced in order to supplement the supply of coinage when the government failed to supply enough coins to a region. The former had to similar enough to originals to fool people; they wanted good-looking legends. The latter have no need to be accurate reproductions, and, as we see, often are not. All they have to be is accepted by the locals. If they were accepted, and they were because official coins were in short supply, there was no need to get the details right.</p><p><br /></p><p>For a lot more about imitations, see:</p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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