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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3234423, member: 85693&quot;]Your example looks good to me, but I am no expert.&nbsp; I have a couple of them that are very cruddy, low weight and apparently low quality.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen fourrees as well - some have been posted on CT.&nbsp; The quality of these got pretty poor and I imagine the counterfeiters were busy. </p><p><br /></p><p>A while back I was poking around on line to see why there are so many of these coins - I read somewhere that if you have a garden in Serbia you are bound to dig one of these up!&nbsp; There is speculation that they were used in the massive slave trade with Rome, which is why they got smaller in time, basically matching the denarius.&nbsp; It is also interesting that the minting of these came to a stop around the time Caesar and Pompey duked it out at the Battle of Dyrrhachium.&nbsp; Did Rome take over the coinage?&nbsp; Were Roman troops paid with these for a while in lieu of denarii?&nbsp; The site I referenced above has more information on this and other topics. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dyrrhachium_(48_BC" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dyrrhachium_(48_BC" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dyrrhachium_(48_BC</a>)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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