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<p>[QUOTE="Cherd, post: 8564573, member: 24754"]I think the fouree is a great coin. The quality is good enough to satisfy the "Tiberius" hole in most collections, the core visibility occurs in places that are not obnoxious, and the fact that it is a fourree just provides another story to tell people about the coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>I probably wouldn't have noticed if you'd not mentioned it, but Livia's face IS detailed to an almost humorous extent <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Plus...... who's to say that the Tribute Penny in the Gospels wasn't a fourree? It's not like the stories say:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Jesus said “Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.” They brought the coin, Jesus punched it to check for purity and examined it with his jeweler's loop, then asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>That might be the one!!! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I felt the same way about the prices. But, I suppose I wanted one for the same reason that everybody else wants them, it makes my collection that much more interesting to whomever I can wrestle into looking at it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie82" alt=":shy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. I certainly wanted to avoid going overboard, but I coughed up what was necessary to get a halfway decent one:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1510926[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The only biblical coin on my list that I'm yet to buy is the Tyrian Shekel. It suffers from the same overpricing problems, but average about 2-3 times the cost <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cherd, post: 8564573, member: 24754"]I think the fouree is a great coin. The quality is good enough to satisfy the "Tiberius" hole in most collections, the core visibility occurs in places that are not obnoxious, and the fact that it is a fourree just provides another story to tell people about the coin! I probably wouldn't have noticed if you'd not mentioned it, but Livia's face IS detailed to an almost humorous extent :rolleyes: Plus...... who's to say that the Tribute Penny in the Gospels wasn't a fourree? It's not like the stories say: [I]Jesus said “Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.” They brought the coin, Jesus punched it to check for purity and examined it with his jeweler's loop, then asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?” [/I] That might be the one!!! :jawdrop: [I][/I] I felt the same way about the prices. But, I suppose I wanted one for the same reason that everybody else wants them, it makes my collection that much more interesting to whomever I can wrestle into looking at it :shy:. I certainly wanted to avoid going overboard, but I coughed up what was necessary to get a halfway decent one: [ATTACH=full]1510926[/ATTACH] The only biblical coin on my list that I'm yet to buy is the Tyrian Shekel. It suffers from the same overpricing problems, but average about 2-3 times the cost :([/QUOTE]
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