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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4017275, member: 19463"]I would love to know how these fourrees circulated in their day. Did the average man on the street just not know? Did they circulate only where real coins were unavailable? Did they supply monetary services at a discount to some subculture? Obviously there would be a variety of answers for various circumstances. My Gordian III denarius would hardly fool a blind man and has a very interesting reverse combining Pax and Aequitas.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1056382[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand I always felt the Decius had die work a bit better than the usual official coins. Before the plating broke, would it fool many? I believe this reverse was first used by Decius. The first fourrees were made the day after the first coins. Their makers must have been an interesting group of characters. Rather than another movie showing us the evils of emperors, I'd like to see a biography of a Roman counterfeiter. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1056383[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4017275, member: 19463"]I would love to know how these fourrees circulated in their day. Did the average man on the street just not know? Did they circulate only where real coins were unavailable? Did they supply monetary services at a discount to some subculture? Obviously there would be a variety of answers for various circumstances. My Gordian III denarius would hardly fool a blind man and has a very interesting reverse combining Pax and Aequitas. [ATTACH=full]1056382[/ATTACH] On the other hand I always felt the Decius had die work a bit better than the usual official coins. Before the plating broke, would it fool many? I believe this reverse was first used by Decius. The first fourrees were made the day after the first coins. Their makers must have been an interesting group of characters. Rather than another movie showing us the evils of emperors, I'd like to see a biography of a Roman counterfeiter. [ATTACH=full]1056383[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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