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Message:: [QUOTE="red_spork, post: 2743555, member: 74282"]I should preface this by saying I have not studied these interesting anomalous coins nearly as much as I'd like to but I would not at all be surprised to learn that they are some sort of emergency issue related to a silver shortage during the Second Punic War. Some sort of "IOU" type thing. There seem to have been other emergency issues where for instance asses of Canusium and Luceria which were woefully underweight(like 10-25% normal weight) and quadrigati with extreme debasement. We may never know but I'm also of the opinion that they are not fouree cores because I have seen several victoriati with no remnants of a silver foil left at all and I don't feel like these are simply cases of fourees losing their silver. RBW certainly had many of these and few actual fourees  that I've seen so he seemingly was interested in the question as well.[/QUOTE]