Domitian Fourree Denarius, Mule

This is another recent pick. After noticing the Severus was a fouree I have been looking at nicely made contemporary counterfeits. Thinking about how they were done. Saw this today and picked it for further study.



The internal corrosion broke it up enough that it cannot be missed as a fourree.



But I think that without the interior corrosion it could still fool a current collector. It would appear as an odd mule of two known types: RIC 562 obverse and RIC 738 reverse.

It was an odd choice of obverse for the counterfeiters because it is several years earlier than the reverse used. And the legend ' IMP CAES DOMITIAN AVG GERMANICVS' seems unique to that type.

Perhaps the counterfeiters did not care to bend in perfectly?
Or perhaps they were working with official dies stolen from a mint and used those that they could get?