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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 5466983, member: 84744&quot;]That&#039;s one possibility, for sure... and one idea about &quot;limes&quot; issues is that they are actually fourrée cores (see below)...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Good thoughts, at least it recapitulates some of my own thinking.&nbsp; There are other unusual denominations with this reverse type at Rome (including the rare double sestertius), so they may well have been doing some experimentation.&nbsp; But still... what is it supposed to be, even as an experiment?</p><p><br /></p><p>One idea I&#039;ve had is that it&#039;s a fourrée core, from an imitation gold fraction.&nbsp; In Doyen&#039;s study of the mess that is Gallienus gold, he lists a semissis from the previous issue at Rome that is about the right weight.&nbsp; But I don&#039;t know what the module is, or if it has a radiate crown.&nbsp; There are also other fractions, including 1g gold coins (tremissis/triens?) that might fit, but they are all extremely rare, and I haven&#039;t even seen a photo of any of them.&nbsp; My main question is whether any of them have radiate crowns.&nbsp; (On the gold, radiates are normally reserved for the double-aureus, or binio - during the sole reign these can be surprisingly light and are often mistaken for aureii.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Still a mystery to me, but my current (extremely tentative) bet is a fourrée gold fraction.&nbsp; If I find out none of the fractions have radiate crowns that hypothesis would go out the window, though.&nbsp; Any help would be greatly appreciated![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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