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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3609004, member: 84744"]I think it's genuine. It could be an ancient fourrée, but it doesn't really look like silver foil. Another possibility is surface enrichment which has worn away. Surface enrichment is normal for these, and can be increased by acid cleaning. This leaves an extra-coppery under-layer, from which the silver has been pulled in the enrichment process. I don't know how common that is on Decius ants.</p><p><br /></p><p>Definitely keep it if it's a fourrée. Fourrées this late are scarce! (There wasn't much money to be made by counterfeiting, given how low the silver content was in the first place.) <a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/imitTD.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/imitTD.html" rel="nofollow">Here's</a> [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER]'s page on late fourée ants.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do have a Decius fourrée, but unlike yours it's clearly unofficial. (Also you can see that it's made with silver foil.)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]966355[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Then there's my (and quite possibly the) absolutely latest 2nd c. fourrée ant, a Gallienus (joint reign), issued no earlier than 256:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]966360[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3609004, member: 84744"]I think it's genuine. It could be an ancient fourrée, but it doesn't really look like silver foil. Another possibility is surface enrichment which has worn away. Surface enrichment is normal for these, and can be increased by acid cleaning. This leaves an extra-coppery under-layer, from which the silver has been pulled in the enrichment process. I don't know how common that is on Decius ants. Definitely keep it if it's a fourrée. Fourrées this late are scarce! (There wasn't much money to be made by counterfeiting, given how low the silver content was in the first place.) [URL='http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/imitTD.html']Here's[/URL] [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER]'s page on late fourée ants. I do have a Decius fourrée, but unlike yours it's clearly unofficial. (Also you can see that it's made with silver foil.) [ATTACH=full]966355[/ATTACH] Then there's my (and quite possibly the) absolutely latest 2nd c. fourrée ant, a Gallienus (joint reign), issued no earlier than 256: [ATTACH=full]966360[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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