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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3609540, member: 19463"]This is a late Roman from the group that once was assigned to a different mint. Mine is a bit different and 4.3g.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]966514[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe it has suffered greatly in a chemical sense but really can't say if that was from fields and fertilizer over centuries or someone trying to cover up a bad fake. This series is also known overstruck on earlier coins so I see a possibility that it was overstruck on a barbarous or branch mint coin with less than stellar statistics. It is not a fourree. I agree that fourrees this late are worth a premium due to rarity but that premium is less than the hit to value from being a fourree. I have two. I am fond of my Decius with interesting style and well placed silver.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]966519[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The other is Herennius Etruscus with core exposed in all of the wrong places. Neither strikes me as foil type as used earlier (and on Sev's coin) but one of the lower quality plating methods (dipping, wash) mentioned in Campbell.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]966520[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I would like a Gallienus fourree like Sev's. It is as late as possible before we entered the silver wash period on regular coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3609540, member: 19463"]This is a late Roman from the group that once was assigned to a different mint. Mine is a bit different and 4.3g. [ATTACH=full]966514[/ATTACH] I believe it has suffered greatly in a chemical sense but really can't say if that was from fields and fertilizer over centuries or someone trying to cover up a bad fake. This series is also known overstruck on earlier coins so I see a possibility that it was overstruck on a barbarous or branch mint coin with less than stellar statistics. It is not a fourree. I agree that fourrees this late are worth a premium due to rarity but that premium is less than the hit to value from being a fourree. I have two. I am fond of my Decius with interesting style and well placed silver. [ATTACH=full]966519[/ATTACH] The other is Herennius Etruscus with core exposed in all of the wrong places. Neither strikes me as foil type as used earlier (and on Sev's coin) but one of the lower quality plating methods (dipping, wash) mentioned in Campbell. [ATTACH=full]966520[/ATTACH] I would like a Gallienus fourree like Sev's. It is as late as possible before we entered the silver wash period on regular coins.[/QUOTE]
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