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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 2699327, member: 84744&quot;]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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Please add your own examples from the dawn of coinage, preferably overlapping with the 7th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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