I have been looking for fouree for awhile.. hoping to find one of the Republic that fit my budget and was in good shape. Something that would be a really cool example to add to my collection. Really excited to pick this one up!!! Now I will be on the look out for the "official" version of this very coin. Be great conversation pieces and hold a prominent place in my little collection. 154 BC - Roman Republic. C Scribonius Fouree Denarius Obverse: Roma right Reverse: Dioscuri galloping right, C SCR below, ROMA in exergue Size: 18.77mm Weight: 2.48 grams Please post your fourees or ....I would love to see some examples of the official version of this coin. Cheers!!
Fourrees are fun, I think every collection should have at least one (didn't mean for that to rhyme ). To that end, I picked up my first fourree before I even knew what a fourree was . A cut fourree stater of Neapolis hideous in more ways than one...
IMO the best fourree for a single representative of the genre need to show some core exposure but not randomly scattered to make the coin ugly AND a trace of the seam where the overlapping silver foil sheets failed to join completely. The Augustus below has spots of core on the horses but the obverse is intact witha seam running a little way in from the outside edge. The Antony legionary below shows much more core exposure and edge failure and there is darkness seeping out of the seam around the ship. I really like the minor core wear through on the high points of some letters like RP at obverse bottom. On the other hand, it is harder to love a fourree that lost the silver over the most important parts. As Antony portrait coins go, this is terrible. It appears that the smaller foil circle on the obverse fell off completelt while the larger one that wrapped over the edges from the reverse was very tight.
I wanted an example that was attractive, displayed the skill of the forger and showed enough copper to make the fact that it is a fouree obvious. Who really knows - but I think my example circulated a good long time before it was found out.
I've never sought out fourree coins, but a few have come my way. It is astonishing how good the workmanship is on some of them. Here is a denarius of Trajan. The colors didn't come out - the contrast between the core and the plating is dramatic:
I have a few, I like this one: Coin type: Roman Republican Entered by: pishpash Added on: Nov 2, 2017 Authenticity: Fouree Moneyer: C. Norbanus Coin: AR Denarius Fouree LXXXX C NORBANVS - Diademed head of Venus right - Grain-ear, fasces and caduceus. Mint: (83 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 3.56g / 20mm / - References: Sydenham 739 Norbana 2
..there ya go...i'm from the same school of thought as @zumbly on fourees..at least one or two in the collection..
That's a cool fouree @Clavdivs ! I had one of these on my list for quite a while before I picked this one up. Roman Republic, Fourée Denarius imitating L. Thorius Balbus. 2.8g, 19mm, 3h; after 105 BC. Obv.: Head right of Juno Sospita, wearing goat-skin headdress; I. S. M. R. behind. Rev.: L.THORIVS // BALBVS; Bull charging right; S above. Reference: cf. Sear 192; Thoria 1; Cr. 316/1; Syd. 598. From the Doug Smith Collection #387 Love those cool edge shots by the way!
