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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 4016128, member: 84744"]I don't think anyone here has seen a fourrée ant later than this one, which dates to 256 at the earliest (it's a “mule” of an obverse and reverse type that was never produced officially):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1056138[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Gallienus, joint reign with his father Valerian (253-260 CE; issued 256 or later). Fourrée antoninianus. Obv: GALLIENVS PF AVG, Radiate, cuirassed, and draped bust right. Rev: PROVIDENTIA AVGG, Providentia standing slightly left, holding wand over globe at her feet, and cornucopiae. 2.95g 20.5-22mm</font></p><p><br /></p><p>At this time the official antoniniani would have been composed of maybe 15-20% silver – not much different from a fourrée already! I guess plated counterfeits could have been barely profitable if skillfully made with a very thin foil, but one would expect them to be rare. After 260 there was so little silver that such counterfeits would have been pointless and impossible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 4016128, member: 84744"]I don't think anyone here has seen a fourrée ant later than this one, which dates to 256 at the earliest (it's a “mule” of an obverse and reverse type that was never produced officially): [ATTACH=full]1056138[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3]Gallienus, joint reign with his father Valerian (253-260 CE; issued 256 or later). Fourrée antoninianus. Obv: GALLIENVS PF AVG, Radiate, cuirassed, and draped bust right. Rev: PROVIDENTIA AVGG, Providentia standing slightly left, holding wand over globe at her feet, and cornucopiae. 2.95g 20.5-22mm[/SIZE] At this time the official antoniniani would have been composed of maybe 15-20% silver – not much different from a fourrée already! I guess plated counterfeits could have been barely profitable if skillfully made with a very thin foil, but one would expect them to be rare. After 260 there was so little silver that such counterfeits would have been pointless and impossible.[/QUOTE]
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