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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 5223730, member: 19463&quot;]Ten Roman/Byzantines:</p><p><br /></p><p>This one makes the list as my best fourree serrate denarius.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1216430[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Caesar and Octavian - not pretty but this is a rare coin.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1216431[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Also rare and one of my prettiest fourrees with litte core exposure:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1216432[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Augustus &amp; Tiberius</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1216434[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Claudius</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1216436[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I have seen photos of a few other fourree brockages but this Hadrian is my only one.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1216437[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This Septimius is a mule with Caracalla reverse of what I consider charming style. I do wish it were in better condition with less patchy core.&nbsp; It represents about a dozen Severan period fourrees that did not make this listing.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1216440[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It really seems that the person who cut this Trajan Decius die could have got an honest job.&nbsp; I love the style.&nbsp; By this late date, there was so little silver in the real thing that it would seem of little profit to make fourrees.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1216443[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>In the Byzantine period we get gold plated coins.&nbsp; This Basil II and Constantine VIII has core exposed in all the right places to be, IMHO, more attractive than a solid coin.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1216447[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, there are rare Byzantine plated coins with gold over a silver core.&nbsp; This came to me in 2014 and is the only fourree I have purchased in the last decade.&nbsp; I&#039;m glad to have the ones I have but a fourree would have to be special (Caligula or Galba come to mind) to be appealing now.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1216446[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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