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<p>[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 2457109, member: 44316"]NWB, no those are not fourrees. A fourree makes a profit for the counterfeiter by imitating a good-silver coin using a base core instead of silver and covering it with silver foil (like aluminum foil) and striking the imitation, which makes it look like good silver but with much cheaper base metal inside (The interior is usually copper. Silver was, by weight, 100 times as expensive as copper). Only when the original was fairly good silver was this profitable. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Salonina and Constantine II coins you showed us are just corroded coins that never did have much silver. Fourrees are common under the Republic and early empire when denarii were good silver, and become less common under Gordian III and later as the silver content of the originals dropped dramatically.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 2457109, member: 44316"]NWB, no those are not fourrees. A fourree makes a profit for the counterfeiter by imitating a good-silver coin using a base core instead of silver and covering it with silver foil (like aluminum foil) and striking the imitation, which makes it look like good silver but with much cheaper base metal inside (The interior is usually copper. Silver was, by weight, 100 times as expensive as copper). Only when the original was fairly good silver was this profitable. The Salonina and Constantine II coins you showed us are just corroded coins that never did have much silver. Fourrees are common under the Republic and early empire when denarii were good silver, and become less common under Gordian III and later as the silver content of the originals dropped dramatically.[/QUOTE]
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