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<p>[QUOTE="Gao, post: 1146207, member: 19409"]Well you're in luck then. Go to <a href="http://www.vcoins.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.vcoins.com/" rel="nofollow">VCoins</a>, put in your price range, and search for something like "denarius" and you'll find plenty. For reference, a denarius is usually about the size of a dime. You should also keep in mind that "fouree" refers to a type of ancient counterfeit where they would use a base metal core and cover it with a thin layer of silver, so any coin with that in the description won't have more than a thin surface layer of silver (and sometimes that's even gone). Another type of affordable coin that often comes in silver is the antoninianus. They're a little larger than denarii, but from the mid third century onwards, they barely had any silver in them, so not everything that turns up when you search for "antoninianus" will be silver. If you want one of those in silver, it might be better to search for emperors that issued then in silver. Gordian III (just search for "gordian" to find his antoniniani) is probably the most affordable out of these emperors, and his denarii and antoniniani are around 50% silver or so.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gao, post: 1146207, member: 19409"]Well you're in luck then. Go to [url=http://www.vcoins.com/]VCoins[/url], put in your price range, and search for something like "denarius" and you'll find plenty. For reference, a denarius is usually about the size of a dime. You should also keep in mind that "fouree" refers to a type of ancient counterfeit where they would use a base metal core and cover it with a thin layer of silver, so any coin with that in the description won't have more than a thin surface layer of silver (and sometimes that's even gone). Another type of affordable coin that often comes in silver is the antoninianus. They're a little larger than denarii, but from the mid third century onwards, they barely had any silver in them, so not everything that turns up when you search for "antoninianus" will be silver. If you want one of those in silver, it might be better to search for emperors that issued then in silver. Gordian III (just search for "gordian" to find his antoniniani) is probably the most affordable out of these emperors, and his denarii and antoniniani are around 50% silver or so.[/QUOTE]
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