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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 2075096, member: 9204&quot;]I collected and wrote about these for a little while. Doug, if you&#039;re interested in the series, I recommend finding checking out the article &quot;Counterfeit Coins in Roman Britain&quot; by George Boon, published in Coins and the Archaeologist, ed. John Casey &amp; Richard Reece, BAR 4, 1974. It quite cogently discusses all of the major periods of counterfeiting in Britain - the Claudian era copies, the cast sestertii of the 2nd century, the &#039;barbarous radiates,&#039; the Constantinian copies, the Fallen Horsemen, and other later imitations. With regards to the dating, if memory serves me right, they should have died out around 283, based on hoard evidence and the infrequent copies of Probus and Aurelian.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, the term &#039;barbarous radiate&#039; for these is a bit of a misnomer. There is good evidence that these were mostly produced within the empire, in Gaul.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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