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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1802391, member: 57463&quot;]I read once in a <i>Celator</i> article that the horns of the Cretan goat were the &quot;horns of plenty&quot; or cornucopia, filled with fruits and grains.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, the newer coin is the one to admire.&nbsp; The previous fouree would be difficult to authenticate to an official Mint.&nbsp; Crawford has an essay called &quot;Plated Coin, False Coin&quot; in which he asserts that no Roman Mint ever officially issued fourees.&nbsp; (M. H. Crawford, “Plated Coins, False Coins,” <i>Numismatic Chronicle, 1968</i>. )</p><p><br /></p><p>I used that viewpoint in my own article about &quot;Copper Owls&quot; the so-called &quot;Emergency Coinage&quot; of Athens 405 BCE. </p><p><br /></p><p>Be that as it may I was intrigued by the great difference in weight between the two (apparently) genuine examples.&nbsp; Is there any way to date them to see if the second from Maridvnvm is perhaps a generation or more older?&nbsp; We know that the Romans began with coinages on Greek standards before settling into their own, mostly as an exigency of war.&nbsp; Just curious...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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