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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 5233388, member: 75937&quot;]It&#039;s common for ancient fouree forgeries to have the reverse of one ruler muled to the obverse of another. This fouree of Orbiana, for example, is a mule between an obverse of Orbiana and a reverse of her mother-in-law:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1217195[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Genuine Orbiana:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1217194[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Genuine Julia Mamaea:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1217193[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This may represent merely the effect of only having certain dies on hand. Alternatively, it may have been deliberate on the part of the forgers because it allowed them to identify their handiwork and avoid taking it as the genuine article if encountered in circulation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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