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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1781503, member: 19463&quot;]Mainstream scholars deny the existence of official fourrees for all Roman periods.&nbsp; There are some of us radicals that allow the possibility that some fourrees might have been produced in the mint or by mint workers &#039;moonlighting&#039; but this can neither be proved or disproved.&nbsp; Certainly the vast majority of plated coins can be shown to be unofficial by style.&nbsp; The difference in opinion is that some of us are unwilling to say &#039;all&#039; just because we have not found absolute proof that every specimen is &#039;bad&#039;.&nbsp; If a plated coin was made by a mint worker in the mint using official mint equipment, there is no way to prove whether he was acting on official orders or on his own.&nbsp; There are no surviving records of mint activity of the normal variety let alone records spelling out illegal or unadmitted matters.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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