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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3896633, member: 85693"]Hmmm. These are interesting, to be sure, but with no expertise in the matter, I think I am in the "suspicious" camp. Die-matched fourrees seem suspicious at the very least. I'm not crazy about the "barbaric" style either - they just seem a little too good to be true. But what do I know? </p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, Curtis Clay knows a lot more than I do. I have an odd-ball fourree in my collections of Otacilia Severa with a blundered reverse legend and Curtis Clay comments (on the "Carpic mint", not the barbarous copy) that I found online -</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1027448[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Otacilia Severa Fourrée Ant.</b></p><p><b>(wife of Philip I the Arab)</b></p><p><b>(c. 245-247 A. D.) </b></p><p><b>Carpic Campaign Aux. mint <b>or Trajan Decius era imitation</b></b></p><p>MARCIA OTACIL SEVERA AVG diad. dr. bust on crescent / IVNO CONSEAVΛT (sic), Juno standing l. w. patera & sceptre.</p><p>RIC 127 (imitation/variation)</p><p>(3.91 grams / 20 mm)</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Attribution Notes: </b></p><p>"I have been shown two other specimens of this obverse with a blundered reverse legend. Both other specimens are fourees...As this obverse (sic) die has been used for reverses issued under Trajan Decius, it was probably struck during or after his reign."</p><p><b><a href="http://ettuantiques.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ettuantiques.com" rel="nofollow">http://ettuantiques.com</a></b></p><p><br /></p><p>"According to Curtis Clay, these coins could have been minted during Carpic</p><p>Campaign (AD 245-247) by auxiliary mint of the mint of Rome." (RIC 127)</p><p><b><a href="http://marchal.thibaut.free.fr" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://marchal.thibaut.free.fr" rel="nofollow">http://marchal.thibaut.free.fr</a></b></p><p><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3896633, member: 85693"]Hmmm. These are interesting, to be sure, but with no expertise in the matter, I think I am in the "suspicious" camp. Die-matched fourrees seem suspicious at the very least. I'm not crazy about the "barbaric" style either - they just seem a little too good to be true. But what do I know? In any case, Curtis Clay knows a lot more than I do. I have an odd-ball fourree in my collections of Otacilia Severa with a blundered reverse legend and Curtis Clay comments (on the "Carpic mint", not the barbarous copy) that I found online - [ATTACH=full]1027448[/ATTACH] [B]Otacilia Severa Fourrée Ant. (wife of Philip I the Arab) (c. 245-247 A. D.) Carpic Campaign Aux. mint [B]or Trajan Decius era imitation[/B][/B] MARCIA OTACIL SEVERA AVG diad. dr. bust on crescent / IVNO CONSEAVΛT (sic), Juno standing l. w. patera & sceptre. RIC 127 (imitation/variation) (3.91 grams / 20 mm) [B] Attribution Notes: [/B] "I have been shown two other specimens of this obverse with a blundered reverse legend. Both other specimens are fourees...As this obverse (sic) die has been used for reverses issued under Trajan Decius, it was probably struck during or after his reign." [B][URL]http://ettuantiques.com[/URL][/B] "According to Curtis Clay, these coins could have been minted during Carpic Campaign (AD 245-247) by auxiliary mint of the mint of Rome." (RIC 127) [B][URL]http://marchal.thibaut.free.fr[/URL][/B] [B] [/B][/QUOTE]
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