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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 2906000, member: 84744&quot;]Nope!&nbsp; I just discovered this is one of the few I hadn&#039;t photographed.&nbsp; It&#039;s a Gallienus, and after investigating it further just now, it really has me puzzled.&nbsp; Here&#039;s a quickie cellphone photo (on some funky felt):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]700972[/ATTACH](actually not a bad photo, maybe I will try that again sometime!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Sure looks like a fourrée, but on a Gallienus?!?&nbsp; Acsearch didn&#039;t turn up any fourrées of either Gallienus or Valerian, nor could I find info about any such thing elsewhere online.&nbsp; I figured it was just the effect (discussed on [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER]&#039;s page <a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/isitfourree.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/isitfourree.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>) of the strike producing a thin layer of fairly pure silver on the surface, which wore away in spots &amp; corroded underneath. I put it aside as one of the lot&#039;s duds.&nbsp; (That&#039;s why I didn&#039;t have a photo.)</p><p><br /></p><p>But now I&#039;m not so sure...</p><p><br /></p><p>1) First, it&#039;s from the joint reign period (PROVIDENTIA <u>AVGG</u>), so before 260, when the silver content was higher (maybe 20% or even a bit more)... so still barely worth counterfeiting perhaps, at least in volume.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) More importantly, <i>it&#039;s not in RIC</i>.&nbsp; The obverse legend is a bit tricky to make out, but there clearly isn&#039;t room for &quot;IMP&quot; or anything more extensive before &quot;GALLIENVS PF AVG&quot;.&nbsp; I think that&#039;s the full legend (#6 in RIC, used in Lugdunum 256-9, Rome 260ish, and Milan 257-260ish).&nbsp; The reverse matches RIC 158-60 (Rome mint), but none of those have a plausible match to the obverse legend!&nbsp; No matches on acsearch either, or gallienus.net or gallienus.info or wildwinds.&nbsp; (The portrait style doesn&#039;t look like Rome to me either, but I&#039;m not confident of that.&nbsp; The reverse type only occurs at Rome, or at Milan with a different legend.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Point 2 very strongly suggests this is an unofficial issue.&nbsp; In addition to point (1) and the fact that it very much looks plated, I am now leaning towards the view that this is indeed a fourrée.&nbsp; In which case it would be one of the last (silver) fourrées to have been produced before Diocletian&#039;s reforms! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I would be very interested to hear your opinion on this, [USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER]... also [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER] and [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER]... and anyone else!</p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, this has almost certainly gone from dud to keeper!&nbsp; Thanks for the prompt!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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