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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1635214, member: 19463&quot;]Fourree means plated.&nbsp; Who made them is not what makes them plated.&nbsp; Most traditional scholars claim all fourrees are fakes made outside the mint.&nbsp; I say that can not be proved.&nbsp; Certainly most fourrees are fakes but there is no reason that some of the crooks could not have been mint workers or bosses.&nbsp; It is also possible that some were ordered from higher up.&nbsp; We can not prove anything.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Generally, I prefer to use &#039;fourree&#039; to mean coins produced by one specific technique where precious metal foil was wrapped around a base metal core with the intent of fooling someone into thinking the coin was solid when it was not.&nbsp; There are plated coins made by methods other than the foil wrap but they are relatively uncommon until the Severan period when the debased official coins were decreasingly worth faking by the complex foil method.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I believe late Roman silver washed coins were washed to indicate that their alloy contained a small amount of silver even though that amount was too little to make the coin look silver.&nbsp; That is a small but important difference.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My views and a lot of photos of plated coins are on my pages linking from:</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fourree.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fourree.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fourree.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Read the best book on the subject:</p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Times New Roman">Campbell, William, </font></span><i>Greek and Roman Plated Coins Numismatic Notes and Monographs No. 57, American Numismatic Society, 1933.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Typical foil fourrees:</p><p>[ATTACH]234261.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]234262.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]234264.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]234265.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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