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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2603668, member: 44316&quot;]To be &quot;official&quot; its issue must be initiated by the government. Normally that would mean it was made in a regular government mint, as opposed to being made in the basement by some private person making &quot;coins&quot; for personal profit or to fill a need for coins when the government has failed to do so (which was common in Britain). </p><p><br /></p><p>However, the status of some coins minted and used on the frontiers remains unresolved. There are base-metal &quot;denarii&quot; and &quot;limes-falsa&quot; which would not be accepted as official in the center of the empire that were used on the frontiers. If a general on the Rhine permits the production and circulation of base-metal denarii, are they &quot;official&quot;?&nbsp; We do not know whether those Rhine and Danube coins were ordered produced, permitted to be produced, barely tolerated, or outright treated as criminal counterfeits. </p><p><br /></p><p>One of the fun things about ancient numismatics is we don&#039;t have all the answers. There is lots of room for study and research. </p><p><br /></p><p>For reference works on the matter, see here:</p><p><a href="http://esty.ancients.info/imit/imitationrefs.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/imit/imitationrefs.html" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/imit/imitationrefs.html</a></p><p>That page does not list recent articles, but it good for anything before 2011.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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