Caesar, elephant, Fouree, it was used, like a pendant,

[quadrans]

Caesar, elephant, Fouree, it was used, like a pendant,

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-113153

Caesar (100-44 B.C.), AR-denarius, Crawf 443-1, Plated (Fouree), Military mint travelling with Caesar (Gaul), #2
avers:-CAESAR in exergue, elephant right, trampling on serpent.
revers:- Simpulum, sprinkler, axe (surmounted by a wolf's head) and priest's hat.
exerg:-/-//CAESAR, diameter: 17-20mm, weight: 2,66g, axes: 5h,
mint: Military mint travelling with Caesar (Gaul), date: 49-48 B.C., ref: Crawford-443/1, Sydneham-1006, RSC-49, BMCRR (Gaul) 27


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[manpace]

How can we be sure it was used as a pendant?  Wouldn't that be treatment too rough for a fourre to keep much of its silver coating?

[quadrans]

How can we be sure it was used as a pendant?  Wouldn't that be treatment too rough for a fourre to keep much of its silver coating?

I thought that the hole on the right side like in the following Hadrian denarius and Constantinus follis, it shall only be missing from the terminal.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-94912
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-90725

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[ickster]

That's a nice fouree. That would have been a hard coin to detect when pristine.

Loved the coins with the old pendant attachments still on. I haven't seen that before.

[quadrans]

That's a nice fouree. That would have been a hard coin to detect when pristine.

Loved the coins with the old pendant attachments still on. I haven't seen that before.

 Thank you ickster...

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[Joe Sermarini]

It is surprising to me that the ancients most often did not care where they placed the hole. I suspect almost any modern human would want either the obverse or the reverse, whichever they favored, to be right side up.

[spinkpa]

^^^ It might not have mattered where it was holed if the whole coin were seen by the wearer as some kind of good luck charm.

I've seen a few similarly carelessly holed, more modern coins; mostly English or Australian pennies/halfpennies that have been struck by bullets.

[SC]

On some coins the holes are very carefully placed.  I have some in my gallery with three holes all arranged so as to leave the bust untouched.

The different practices certainly speak to different uses for the coin.

Shawn

[quadrans]

It is surprising to me that the ancients most often did not care where they placed the hole. I suspect almost any modern human would want either the obverse or the reverse, whichever they favored, to be right side up.

 Hi Joe,

Yes I also think it's interesting, it could be used more amulet, and so important was not the exact location of the coin.

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