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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 18685175, member: 128351&quot;]Silver-plated coins are the fourrée denarii, this method was in use since a very early date. In the late 5th c. BC Athens, during the Peloponnesian War, they even minted silver-plated owl tetradrachms. In Rome fourrée denarii existed since the republican era. </p><p>I don&#039;t think the late 3rd c. AD Roman antoniniani were silver plated (stricto sensu), they were silver washed, the bronze coin or blank was briefly put in molten silver. This operation left a very thin layer of silver on the coin surface. New mint-fresh coins looked like white pieces, but the thin silvering quickly vanished after the coin had circulated some time. I don&#039;t know if it lowered its purchasing power.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your Philip Jr tetradrachm from Antioch is not silvered : it is debased silver, but the silver content is enough for the coin to look white.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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