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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3256982, member: 19463&quot;]I wish you the best on your quest.&nbsp; It will not be easy.&nbsp; I have no delusion of ever owning a dekadrachm and have so miserably failed to find a 1/8 obol that I wonder if they exist.&nbsp; The few I have seen of the weight seem to be Eastern copies or so eroded that I wonder if they started as hemiobols and lost metal.&nbsp; My smallest is a real dog with obverse so off center that all we see is helmet crest. The face is off the flan. </p><p>Athens, 365-333 BC, AR tetartemorion (1/4 obol) 0.15g, Svoronos plate 17, 56, Athena hd rt / crescent AΘE[ATTACH=full]855900[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Hemiobols are easy.&nbsp; They look like the common obols but weigh less.&nbsp; This one is 0.35g.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]855906[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>3/4 obols are scarce. I got lucky finding mine in an old NFA sale from the days when NFA customers were largely into big coins. </p><p>Athens, 393-300 BC, AR tritartemorion (3/4 obol) 0.5g,&nbsp; Athena hd rt / 3 crescents AΘE</p><p>[ATTACH=full]855907[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The same NFA sale in 1990 provided my pre-Classical obol with three separate tail feathers.&nbsp; 0.7g.&nbsp; Later styles are easy to find.&nbsp; These are not.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]855908[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There are thousands of mint state tetradrachms.&nbsp; Condition fanatics will find it a bit harder to find these small ones in high grades.&nbsp; They were not buried in huge pots but tend to have been lost in daily commerce as individuals. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Caracalla is a very nice coin from Rome RIC 42!&nbsp;&nbsp; I disagree with CNG on this one.&nbsp; Mine is the version from Laodicea.&nbsp; Am I wrong? [ATTACH=full]855911[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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