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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1960586, member: 19463&quot;]I believe the legend was CERERI FRVGIF.&nbsp; One thing to keep in mind is that you can never make a statement about how all unofficial coins were done with the accuracy available when talking about issues of Rome or other official mints.&nbsp; Many AE denarii were cast.&nbsp; Not all.&nbsp; Many were plated.&nbsp; Can you prove all the ones we have today once were plated?&nbsp; How?&nbsp; Some plated coins of Domna were cast in bronze and later surfaced with silver wash.&nbsp; Others were struck on flans plated before striking and a few were made with the silver foil technique that was most common 200 years earlier.&nbsp; The coin shown by JA copies the Laodicea style rather accurately and appears to have been made by making a mold from a real denarius.&nbsp; Are there traces of silver? Were there?&nbsp; Below is a foil technique fourree struck from original dies that do not really duplicate the style of any mint.&nbsp; The makers of these two coins had little in common other than they were not the official mint.&nbsp; Looking at one tells us nothing about the other.&nbsp; Those of us who like unofficial coins enjoy finding style matches that suggest two coins were made by the same unofficial operator.&nbsp; Proving anything is harder.&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]345775[/ATTACH]</p><p>Perhaps even more interesting are the many coins of this period obviously not from an official mint but solid not plated.&nbsp; Some are more base than the real thing but some are close enough that one wonders where the profit was to be made if that was the intent of the maker.&nbsp; We have a lot to learn about the official coins.&nbsp; The unofficial ones seem hopelessly complex.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]345776[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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