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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2377576, member: 19463&quot;]At least that nobody got a CT thread.&nbsp; His poor brother died and was common enough no one cares even for his coins.&nbsp; I went to a tiny coin show today and got this very poor billon Herennius Etruscus.&nbsp; Both brothers have in common theat their legends are weak in the names historians chose for them.&nbsp; Here is the young prince Quintus Herennius Etruscus Messius Decius.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]487040[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I only had one other Imperial of his but it has much better metal.&nbsp; I have no explanation for why some coins of this period are so much better metal than others.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]487042[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>More amazing to me is that in this time of poor billon official coins, someone was still making fourrees.&nbsp; This is my latest one.&nbsp; It seems it would be easier just to make coins like the real mint did and use the same amount of silver.&nbsp; This one had to be better looking when new than my new coin did.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]487041[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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