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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 2699327, member: 84744"]Today I picked up the fourrée below:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]607235[/ATTACH]</p><p>IONIA. Uncertain. Fourrée Hemihekte (Circa 625-600 BC).</p><p>Obv: Raised swastika pattern.</p><p>Rev: Quadripartite incuse square punch.</p><p>0.97g 8mm</p><p><br /></p><p>I was keen to get this coin, as it makes a nice companion to one I already had (not a fourrée):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]607236[/ATTACH]</p><p>IONIA. Uncertain. Electrum hekte (Circa 625-600 BC).</p><p>Obv: Raised swastika pattern.</p><p>Rev: Quadripartite incuse square punch.</p><p>2.53g 9mm</p><p><br /></p><p>Struck on the Phokaic weight standard, these early lumps of metal probably come from somewhere in northern Ionia when coins were still a novelty. However, there was clearly enough standardization and trust that counterfeiting had a chance of success... even for a counterfeit that was underweight, like the first coin above (a hemihekte), which should really be half the weight of the second (a hekte).</p><p><br /></p><p>Testimony to both the good and bad sides of human ingenuity!</p><p><br /></p><p>This is (finally) my first thread-starter on CoinTalk. Please add your own examples from the dawn of coinage, preferably overlapping with the 7th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 2699327, member: 84744"]Today I picked up the fourrée below: [ATTACH=full]607235[/ATTACH] IONIA. Uncertain. Fourrée Hemihekte (Circa 625-600 BC). Obv: Raised swastika pattern. Rev: Quadripartite incuse square punch. 0.97g 8mm I was keen to get this coin, as it makes a nice companion to one I already had (not a fourrée): [ATTACH=full]607236[/ATTACH] IONIA. Uncertain. Electrum hekte (Circa 625-600 BC). Obv: Raised swastika pattern. Rev: Quadripartite incuse square punch. 2.53g 9mm Struck on the Phokaic weight standard, these early lumps of metal probably come from somewhere in northern Ionia when coins were still a novelty. However, there was clearly enough standardization and trust that counterfeiting had a chance of success... even for a counterfeit that was underweight, like the first coin above (a hemihekte), which should really be half the weight of the second (a hekte). Testimony to both the good and bad sides of human ingenuity! This is (finally) my first thread-starter on CoinTalk. Please add your own examples from the dawn of coinage, preferably overlapping with the 7th century.[/QUOTE]
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