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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1893121, member: 19463&quot;]The Baltimore show Saturday turned up 14 new (to me) old coins.&nbsp; The newest in both senses of the word is something I have really wanted and next to no one else would want in their collection.&nbsp; This is the perfect situation.</p><p><br /></p><p>I collect fourrees.&nbsp; Most are silver on the outside and copper inside.&nbsp; A couple are gold over copper.&nbsp; I was aware of but have never owned one that was gold over silver.&nbsp; Saturday I got this ugly solidus of Constantine VII and Romanus II that is solid silver with gold plating.&nbsp; Gold sticks better to silver so the coin wore through rather than peeling.&nbsp; Certainly a silver core cost more than copper would have but this coin had a much better chance of circulating without being noticed.&nbsp; It is slightly thicker than normal so, even with the wear it is only about .2g lighter than normal.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]322895[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This example is more worn than I might prefer but there&nbsp; is still some gold on Christ&#039;s face and plenty of silver to show exactly what it was that made this coin more appealing to me that to the seller who really could not understand why I wanted it.&nbsp; To his credit, he did ask to be sure I knew the coin was plated.&nbsp; To my discredit, I did not ask if he knew it was silver and what that meant to me.&nbsp; I would have paid more that the $25 he asked.&nbsp;&nbsp; Certainly I would prefer it did not have all those scratches. </p><p><br /></p><p>Most of you will like the other dozen coins I got Saturday better than this one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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