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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 4616580, member: 74834&quot;]Following up on this fascinating thread: here is a gold fourré of a type that&#039;s also in the Anokhin Barbarous Database. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1143327[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>UNCERTAIN GERMANIC TRIBES, Pseudo-Imperial coinage. Mid 3rd-early 4th centuries. &#039;Aureus&#039; (fourrée (subaerate), 18 mm, 2.65 g, 12 h), imitating Marcus Aurelius (?). Obv. ∾CIΠ∾ •/∾C•ΛI∾ON Laureate head of Marcus Aurelius (?) to right. <i>Rev.</i> XCIIXCIXPX XCXIXICXICX Uncertain figure standing right, left arm outstretched. <a href="http://barbarous-imitations.narod.ru/index/1_56/0-112" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://barbarous-imitations.narod.ru/index/1_56/0-112" rel="nofollow">AB 54, 56, 198</a>. Holed and with some breaks in the plating<i>.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>The gilt plate really is gold-color. But the gold layer is thin, as is easy to see, and doesn&#039;t affect the weight much. I&#039;d like to know what was the model for the reverse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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