Overall I like the page. It makes me ashamed that I have not updated my page (linked at the bottom of yours) fo a long time. I absolutely love the Antony
legionary that lost its entire second foil.
Certainly many
fourrees are underweight but some of the fakers realized this and made the coins just a little oversize so the
weight was in specs. You just can not trust the crafty criminal element! There is an
Athens tetradrachm on my site my site weighing 16.5g.
The great book on the subject By
Campbell mentioned on my site is now available online. I really recommend reading it if you have any interest in
plated coins.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000104992965;view=1up;seq=7You also might add a section of coins sometimes mistaken for
fourrees that are actually solid. Silver coins hoarded with coppers can
pick up
red or green surface deposits on top of the silver. To be
fourree, the base metal must be underneath.
I suppose it does not belong on a technical page but I am distressed by the recent rise in interest, therefore prices, for
fourrees that are in terrible condition. I find them interesting but not more so than solid coins.
I would never have led off with a very barbarous
Maximinus not made by the foil process although it is a nice coin. You need a very typical coin that shouts '
fourree'! There are two things I would like to see added but one I lack also. There are
fourree copper coins with iron cores. Years ago I saw a
Nero as with
red stains from the iron but was mostly just a broken, hollow copper shell. The other is a gold over silver core. Gold over copper is more common but gold sticks to silver better so I suspect these were harder to detect.