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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1960564, member: 42773&quot;]I&#039;ll stir this pot with a coin from my drawer of decrepit imitations, an AE denarius of Domna. The dealer called this coin a &quot;cast AE denarius&quot; but it&#039;s possible it was struck as a fourée, in which case the silver plating would have had sharper details. Fourée cores always look cast, being the underlying metal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or maybe it <u>was</u> simply cast bronze, and that was OK with the locals that used it. One poster at FORVM (sagit) says bronze imitations of common denarii from Hadrian to S. Severus are found abundantly in the Ukraine, particularly in the Vinnitsa and Cherkassy regions. Obviously the local tribes were using them openly in commerce. Perhaps the coin should be called a tribal denarius, for those of you who find the term &quot;barbarous&quot; pejorative.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Julia Domna contemporary cast AE Denarius.</b></p><p><b><b>AE 18, 2.24g, unknown mint.</b></b></p><p><b><i>Obv.</i>: IVLIA AVGVSTA, draped bust right.</b></p><p><b><i>Rev.</i>: CERERI FRVGIF, Ceres seated left, holding corn-ears and long torch.</b></p><p><b>copying RIC 546</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]345771[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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