This is one of the smallest coins I have, at 10mm. It's very thick, about 2.5mm thick. It has a tiny elephant, but besides that I'm at a loss. Seems to be Greek, but I have no clue. Thanks in advance.
This is my tiniest Seleukid elephant: Antiochos III, 223-187 BC. Seleucid Æ 2.41g, 13.6 mm, 11 h. Lydia, Sardes. Obv: Laureate head of Apollo right. Rev: BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY, legend above and below elephant advancing left; upturned anchor before. Refs: SC 979; HGC 9, 560; Newell, WSM 1114; SNG Spaer 615.
Here's another tiny elephant from India.... Amazing detail for a 9mm flan... Chalukyas of Gujarat - Rana Hastin (900-1000 AD)-Silver Dirham 9mm diameter/0.50gr Obverse- Elephant facing right. Reverse- Legend in two lines 'Rana Hasti'. Fishman / Todd U8.7
All this studying is paying off. I wasn’t able to get any further since I know next to nothing about Seleucid coins. Just enough to get started in the right direction haha.
Dude, like I showed before, go take a look at Tetartemorions being offered... 4mm to 6mm sizes... get one, and hold it in-hand. You will NOT trust yourself to hold it, as they are not only incredibly small, but incredibly light. @TIF and others have posted in the past how they LOST them (finding them after careful search), in their rugs. They posted pics of the coin lying in the rug (when they found it), that you could barely SEE it after they pointed it out in the pic. I probly have a dozen of them myself. Really cool denomination. I actually dropped one on the rug accidentally after KNOWING this, and I used a high power flashlight to find it. I store mine in Cointains, smallest size. They are "rattlers" as you can shake them around. I then put the Cointain with coin into a Saflip.
