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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 3659434, member: 57495"]Base metal fourrée cores often come from official dies, and some will be found with none of their original silver plating. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]983734[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS</b></p><p>AE Fourrée Denarius Core. 2.34g, 18.5mm. Irregular mint, circa after AD 204. cf. RIC 266. O: SEVERVS – PIVS AVG, laureate head right. R: INDVLGENTIA AVGG / IN CARTH, Dea Caelestis seated on lion, holding thunderbolt, running right near water that seems to gush from under rock on left.</p><p><i>Ex A.K. Collection (Triton XX, 9 Jan 17, Part of Lot 623)</i> </p><p><br /></p><p>Another fourrée, but here with almost all of its silver plating intact.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]983735[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>MARCUS AURELIUS</b></p><p>Fourrée Denarius. 3.4g, 17.5mm. Irregular mint, circa after AD 164. cf. RIC 92. O: ANTONINVS AVG ARMENIACVS, laureate head right. R: P M TR P XVIII IMP II COS III, Mars, helmeted, in military dress, standing right, holding inverted vertical spear in right hand and resting left hand on round shield set on ground. </p><p><br /></p><p>My official example of the OP:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]983730[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>ANTONINUS PIUS with MARCUS AURELIUS</b></p><p>AR Denarius. 3.4g, 19mm. Rome mint, AD 140 AD. RIC 417a. O: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III, laureate head right. R: AVRELIVS CAESAR AVG PII F COS, bare head right.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 3659434, member: 57495"]Base metal fourrée cores often come from official dies, and some will be found with none of their original silver plating. [ATTACH=full]983734[/ATTACH] [B]SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS[/B] AE Fourrée Denarius Core. 2.34g, 18.5mm. Irregular mint, circa after AD 204. cf. RIC 266. O: SEVERVS – PIVS AVG, laureate head right. R: INDVLGENTIA AVGG / IN CARTH, Dea Caelestis seated on lion, holding thunderbolt, running right near water that seems to gush from under rock on left. [I]Ex A.K. Collection (Triton XX, 9 Jan 17, Part of Lot 623)[/I] Another fourrée, but here with almost all of its silver plating intact. [ATTACH=full]983735[/ATTACH] [B]MARCUS AURELIUS[/B] Fourrée Denarius. 3.4g, 17.5mm. Irregular mint, circa after AD 164. cf. RIC 92. O: ANTONINVS AVG ARMENIACVS, laureate head right. R: P M TR P XVIII IMP II COS III, Mars, helmeted, in military dress, standing right, holding inverted vertical spear in right hand and resting left hand on round shield set on ground. My official example of the OP: [ATTACH=full]983730[/ATTACH] [B]ANTONINUS PIUS with MARCUS AURELIUS[/B] AR Denarius. 3.4g, 19mm. Rome mint, AD 140 AD. RIC 417a. O: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III, laureate head right. R: AVRELIVS CAESAR AVG PII F COS, bare head right.[/QUOTE]
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