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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2559671, member: 19463&quot;]No, fourree is a special class of plated coins made as imitations of the real thing.&nbsp; Beginning about the time of Gallienus, the official silver coin was so debased that the official mint applied a silver wash to all these debased coins to make them look like they were silver.&nbsp; In fact, they were but only 4.77% silver which was not enough to look gray as a silver coin should without the wash.&nbsp; The wash was much thinner than the old fourrees but in no way a sign there is anything wrong with the coin.&nbsp; Coins of Probus that look brown have lost all their original silvering.&nbsp; Those that look completely silver just have not lost any yet.&nbsp; They all started out the same.&nbsp; Common are coins with a little silver in recesses and a little of the underlying alloy showing where the silver wore away.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]551480[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]551484[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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