This note is about changes to the second link about molds (below). I have a site on ancient imitations: http://esty.ancients.info/imit/ We have recently discussed fourrees (silver-plated base metal counterfeits) but today I want to discuss molds. Part of the site has illustrations of ancient counterfeiter's molds. Many have been found in Egypt and some in England (and elsewhere), but about 9 in 10 are badly broken so a piece of mold which is not broken is rare. You can see some here: http://esty.ancients.info/numis/molds.html I have added images of a failed experiment to reproduce the technique.
A mold of a large Constantius II FEL TEMP REPARATIO soldier spearing horseman. See the site in my previous post.
cool...so these things were worth counterfeiting back in the day even. so they must have had a bit of buying power? i always imagined some guy giving two fallen horsemen to buy an apple.
