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Message:: [QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8503870, member: 26430"]I used to enjoy collecting fourrees and had a good variety. (I still like them, I just don't seek them out, though I bought a little bag of Augustus fourree denarii a couple years ago.) I still have many, but not as many as I used to. Nice fourrees can look very close to the real thing and be pretty hard to tell apart: Vespasian Denarius:[ATTACH=full]1504108[/ATTACH] Alexander II Zabinas Seleukid Tetradrachm (still have this one):[ATTACH=full]1504100[/ATTACH] Or they can have atrocious artistry that surely wouldn't have fooled anyone at the time: Trajan Decius Fourree version of his famous DACIA - Draco Antoninianus.[ATTACH=full]1504109[/ATTACH] Julius Caesar Elephant Denarius (sold this one, but gave the customer a refund after he'd gotten NGC to slab it and didn't like the slab! Sold it again for more):[ATTACH=full]1504104[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1504103[/ATTACH] Another one (worse but still Caesar!):[ATTACH=full]1504106[/ATTACH] I have or had bunches of these Antoniniani:[ATTACH=full]1504107[/ATTACH] When I used to buy big bags of uncleaned Roman coins, I once found a Vespasian Judaea Capta denarius fourree, but I didn't keep a photo. I did keep a photo of this Brutus that I found:[ATTACH=full]1504099[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]