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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2631734, member: 19463&quot;]Here are denarii that are not official products o the official mint.&nbsp; This should be pretty obvious to all.&nbsp; I believe they are ancient and probably the product of barbarous operations (three different ones - these are too different to be all from one shop).&nbsp; I have many fourrees but prefer unofficial coins that are made from &#039;appropriate silver&#039;. </p><p>The Antoninus Pius is certainly not correct style but has good metal.&nbsp; The legends are just plain wrong on both sides. There is no AVG on the obverse but a single C where it should be.&nbsp; VIRTVS AVG on the reverse would be better if the R were not more like a pi or, perhaps, an inverted V. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]579220[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Diva Faustina I has proper spelling but the style is quite barbarous.&nbsp; The metal is good.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]579222[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Marcus Aurelius&#039; portrait is really not all that bad and the legends are correct but the Hilaritas reverse was used for Faustina II and Commodus and not for Aurelius.&nbsp; The reverse figure is also not correct with the face looking more like Antoninus Pius than a female personification.&nbsp; The metal is solid but a bit porous and, I suspect, a bit lower in silver content than used at the Rome mint.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]579221[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I have no idea where and when these were made but my best guess is that all were made to provide circulating money for people in the far reaches of the empire or nearby non-Roman lands who had seen and liked the idea of a cash economy but did not have normal supplies from Rome.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone have any Antonine unofficial coins?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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