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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1777695, member: 42773&quot;]<font face="Times New Roman">Here are some excerpts from a lecture delivered to the Numismatic Society in London by John Yonge Akerman in 1843. I wonder if you Roman experts can corroborate this information – or has modern scholarship superseded some of it? </font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Can anyone verify this? A quick search of the web shows me that the denarii of Claudius are scarce, and quite expensive in better grades, but I only found one fouree (not my coin)…</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s14.postimg.org/y41ckuw9d/claudius_fouree.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Times New Roman">This is supposedly a piece from the Lugdunum mint. Can someone educate me as to the mint mark? Or is it a matter of certain types made by certain mints?</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Of course, the fact that Julius Caesar and Caracalla engaged in fraud doesn’t indict Claudius of the same. But it doesn’t take a huge stretch of the imagination to consider the possibility of rulers defrauding the public – one can cite thousands of examples throughout history.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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