"Theodora's coins are all AE4's, meaning very small." Hmm JA, I guess coins a bit smaller than a dime are pretty small. For Roman issues. This etty bitty ex. Doug Smith earns it's place as both my smallest and my oldest coin. I was going to use TIF's trick of placing a tiny silver on a large bronze, sadly it was not to be. Please note that my attribution may not be accurate. I used CNG to get the details, and since their example was much better than this one it's hard to tell if all the particulars are correct. Because I have no knowledge other than that I gleaned from Wikipedia, I'll just point you folks over there... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caria
That's as small they get, to be sure. Mine is one denomination larger... Kyzikos, Mysia AR Tritatemorion, 9X12mm, 0.58g; 480-450 BC. Obv.: Forepart of running boar left, tunny fish facing upward. Rev.: Roaring lion. Notes: Ex Sidney Mygind.
Nice itsy bitsy bit of silver, V! I'll spare everyone another exhibition of the 101st Airborne's Flying Pigs Squadron since they just flew a week ago. But I will make you look at my monkey again MACEDON, Pangeion region Uncertain mint, 5th century BC AR trihemitetartemorion (trihemiobol, or some other long and controversial word), 5 mm, 0.26 gm Obv: monkey squatting left Rev: round shield or pellet within square Ref: "Uncertain Thraco-Macedonian Coins, Part II", NomKhron 17 (1998), 67
I kid you not, the whole time I was photographing I was thinking of your coin. Umm, wouldn't this one be the same denomination as mine? Yes? No?
They are approximately the same size so in that regard, yes. Temporally, they are pretty close. Geographically... hmm. Macedonia is across the Aegean Sea from Caria. Did the two regions trade? Was there purposeful sizing of these, with trading in mind? I don't know. Haven't read those books yet I'm going to change my attribution to simply read "AR5" or "AR, 5 mm".
