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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 4131631, member: 82549&quot;]Probably not. It&#039;s more likely an uneven mix of bronze and silver. That&#039;s very common in these billon issues, and it reflects the generally low level of care with which these issues were prepared. Times were pretty tough then, and minting authorities were more interested in getting coins available for trade than they were in--unlike, say, the Greeks--creating works of art.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As a rule, fourees were contemporaneous counterfeits meant to fool merchants at the time. Anything made to fool later collectors would be in better condition since, by definition, anything in a collection doesn&#039;t circulate and get worn down like the coin shown in Inspector43&#039;s photo.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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