Septimius Severus -"Limes Denarius"

Ah my bad.

If I posting to discuss a specific coin then absolutely I have always started a new thread for such a discussion, both here and on other boards.

However on other forums if the discussion was about a very specific type / style of coin / coins - in this case "Lime Denarius" - then multiple examples can be posted within the topic to allow for patterns, techniques, similarities to be observed and discussed, especially when it comes to ancient coins.

Again apologies I didn't realise it works different on this board and I won't make the mistake again.

Jay

Not "lime" but Latin limes ("boundary"), referring to the system of border forts along the Rhine and Danube. The English word "limit" comes from the same Latin root. That said, the whole notion of a "limes" coinage fails to hold up to scrutiny imho.

The so-called "limes denarii" are ancient cast counterfeits. Here is an article on a site in Yorkshire (nowhere near the limes) where false denarii are known to have been produced in the early 3rd century. Some hold on to notions of quasi-official "money of necessity" but if we apply Occam's Razor to the evidence available, the simplest explanation is simple counterfeiting.

https://www.yorkshiremuseum.org.uk/...coin-moulds/

OK so what is this one? It is not a bronze core of a fouree, it was probably never plated from the looks of it so it was made bronze and never looked silver. If it was a pure counterfeit how the heck could it have ever passed? So if this is ancient is it a decent case for such quasi-official money? Look at the weight of 3 grams. If that was a core from a plated coin it would weigh less I imagine.

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5532195

So that link is an official denarius then.
And the known universe of such from this time is contemporary counterfeit or official. I do understand now....

So that coin I linked to is "unofficial" as Nomos says in your opinion. (But they give the explanation of ancient counterfeit or emergency money or limes denarii.) And the original color might have been better than I expect which implies looked more silver from the high tin content perhaps. And the "so-called "limes denarii" are ancient cast counterfeits". Plus "scholars advocating for a "money of necessity" are in the minority." So the coin I linked to is an ancient counterfeit coin, meant to deceive and if it did not the person making it was under pain of death as has been stated. Romans through the centuries did strange things, like using worn coins for legionary re-purposing and countermarking them TICA etc so they did have a need from time to time for extra types of currency. If a group had the dies for a silver coin but no silver someone might have perhaps gotten the idea to strike a few as long as that regional leader of that army at the time accepted it, but I think this matter closes as we can just not go back and find this out I suppose and without ancient sources stating for sure it was done it is all academic and was an interesting discussion.