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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2827220, member: 19463&quot;]...or buy anything but silver coins, as I recall?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Usually it is a big tip off.&nbsp; For example, <b>most </b>fourree Athenian owl tetradrachms are about 4g lighter than solid ones because copper weighs less than silver.&nbsp; I have one that is an exception and weighs enough but is sufficiently larger than most to the point that it looks fishy to me.&nbsp; Imagine how it must have struck ancient Athenians who handled them every day.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone for whom being &#039;sure&#039; about everything is probably best advised to find a different hobby. Ancient studies of any kind requires piecing together evidence and accepting the fact that any day may bring a new piece of evidence that will change everything that used to be a fact into something to be ridiculed.&nbsp; Things about coins that have changed in the last century are many.&nbsp; The future will be no different.&nbsp; Experts of the last century said all fourrees were fakes and not worth studying.&nbsp; I&#039;ll say only most fourrees are fakes and everything is worth studying.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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