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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2906123, member: 44316&quot;]That would be very unusual, for the reasons you state. Look at the edge at 9:00 on the reverse photo. It does look a lot like foil wrapped around the flan, which is how fourrees were made under the early empire. Surfaces of low-silver flans often look more silvery than the interior because of the metallurgy of striking, but this one looks like two distinct layers, copper and then suddenly silver. This silver layer appears thinner than most &quot;silver-foil&quot; produced fourrees, but maybe this counterfeiter was particularly skillful.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think you figured it out. I would have been proud to have that one in my collection for my site. I thought having a Treb Gallus was late for this type of counterfeit.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]701064[/ATTACH]</p><p>20 mm. 5:30. 3.38 grams.</p><p>&nbsp; IMP C C VIB TREB GALLVS AVG</p><p>&nbsp; /PIETAS AVG, Pietas standing, raising both hands. Altar at feet left.</p><p>Prototype:&nbsp; Sear 3.9242 (no photo), RIC 72 (Milan) page 166, plate 13.16.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gallienus is even later.</p><p><br /></p><p>Before the internet these late counterfeit types were very little known.&nbsp; I can remember in the 1980s meeting a serious Gordian III specialist at a convention and showing him fourrees of Gordian III and he didn&#039;t, at the time, even know such things existed. They were not worth enough to be in sale catalogs, few articles had been written about counterfeits, and web sites like mine did not yet exist.</p><p><br /></p><p>The world has changed a lot since the 1980s. Some of it is not for the better, but for information about obscure areas of ancient numismatics it is wonderful.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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