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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 941009, member: 19463&quot;]D is a mystery to me.&nbsp; It copies a coin of Trajan Decius.&nbsp; The silver is very thin and the coin is definitely struck not cast.&nbsp; The style is different than normal but in many ways better than some of the official coins making me wonder who cut those dies.&nbsp; There are late fourrees like this but by this time the profit making them was a lot less than a few decades before and most are really crude compared to this.&nbsp; I would really like to know more about this coin.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I see someone commented on A:&nbsp; This is a barbarous copy of a Falling Horseman with most legends replaced with IIIII.&nbsp; The coin is AE2 size suggesting it was made to circulate with the original FTR coins of the late 340&#039;s but no one would be fooled by the style so it must have been made for use in a remot region rather than for deception.&nbsp; Most interesting, coins of this nature are pretty common so I suspect they were used a lot (probably on the borders just beyond the reach of normal coins).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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