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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 1278056, member: 9204&quot;]Jlblonde - Where did you come up with that &quot;medieval resilvering&quot; scenario? Pretty imaginative! But completely fantasy, unfortunately. </p><p><br /></p><p>The emergency money scenario you are thinking of was Classical Athens. It is believed that they issued plated tetradrachms during the Peloponnesian War. These were plated with a THICK layer of silver and looked from the outside identical to regular issues. But remember, this was an exception, not a rule. Most plated coins are believed to be contemporary counterfeits. More on the plated tetradrachms: <a href="http://www.coin-newbies.com/articles/msns_owls.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coin-newbies.com/articles/msns_owls.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coin-newbies.com/articles/msns_owls.html</a></p><p><a href="http://www.coin-newbies.com/articles/msns_owls.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coin-newbies.com/articles/msns_owls.html" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.coin-newbies.com/articles/msns_owls.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coin-newbies.com/articles/msns_owls.html" rel="nofollow">N</a>ow, I don&#039;t think Randy&#039;s coin is silvered at all. Silvering is much lighter and more reflective. I suspect that on his coin, the natural lead or silver in the bronze leeched to the surface during the time it was in the ground.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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