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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 4260645, member: 80804&quot;]This piece also exhibits the &quot;silver wash&quot; (not really a wash, but this is hardly the first misnomer in the terminology) silvering technique rather than a foil wrap. I think the involved processes of foil wrapping with flux, additional heating to secure the foil to the core (possibly an acidic &quot;pickling&quot; to remove fire scale, too) and then striking, was a lot more appropriate for the value of a Republican or early Imperial denarius. By this time in the 3rd century, that technique was simply too labor intensive and no longer cost-effective for the marketplace value of the coins vs the threat of draconian punishment if detected.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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