Do you collect small (<15mm) coins?

Very cool! I have been there a few times. had a supplier in Suzhou. Thank you for the modern history lesson. I regret that I really did not connect the actual civil war fighting with that city. It is a huge area and population center.

 

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I've always had a soft spot for the small coins - the artwork just seems more impressive at that scale. Some of my favorite tiny coins

Cilicia, unknown, AR Obol, possibly a lifetime depiction of Artaxerxes III (11mm)


Another unknown anonymous type, Herakles / Zeus (10mm)


Unknown satrap (10mm)


Unknown satrap (sold this one last year)


Cilicia, satrap Datames, nice clear Aramaic on a 10mm coin!


The compulsory Kyzikos hemiobol, 9mm


One of my favorite archaics; a Phokaia diobol or 1/12 stater (12mm)

 

This is a beautiful collection @Finn235 !!

 

Not my smallest nor my largest, but they make a nice pair.

The large silver coin is a multiple dirham of the Samanids, 44 mm and 9.2 gr. Minted in Badakhshan near (then) prolific silver mines between 976 and 997 AD.

The small one, in fact a drop of electrum stamped with the head of a seal - the badge of Phokaia on the eastern Aegean sea coast, now Turkey. It’s my oldest coin, from c. 600 BC.

 

English Saxon sceattas and stycas are in the 11-12mm range so the majority of my collection fits the bill.

 

My newest purchase is only 8mm

 

There are plenty of interesting small coins. My favorite is a girl tossing knuckle bones.

Cilicia, TARSOS (389-375 a.C.) AR Obol
Obv - Female kneeling left, tossing astralagoi.
Rev - Male head right.
0.63 gr
9.4 mm

 

My smallest Greeks, combined with a 15 mm Pontica drachm for comparison.





From left to right: a Kyzikos hemiobol (9 mm, 0.38 gr.), a Colophon tetartemorion (7 mm, 0.24 gr.) and an Erythrai 1/96 stater (4 mm, 0.12 gr.).