Ancients => 480-450 BC => My new smallest ancient => Lil Rosy Rosette

Yah, I was quite amazed when I first saw this coin ... how simple and how cool, eh?

=> then when I noticed that this lil' winner is a mere 6 mm I was even more impressed!! (that's pretty symmetric and fairly well-maintained for such a small 2,500 year old coin)

The estimate was $100 .... but cha-chinnng, luckily nobody else saw its beauty, so I scored it for $60 ...

=> I'm lovin' it!! ... I hope that a few of you dudes see its beauty as well ... enjoy!!

IONIA, Erythrai. AR Hemiobol
Circa 480-450 BC
Diameter: 6 mm
Weight: 0.29 grams
Obverse: Rosette
Reverse: Simpler rosette within incuse square
Reference: SNG Copenhagen –; Klein 387
Other: slightly porous. Well centered

 

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Nice catch, Steve. A simple and charming little coin.

 

When it arrives, dont drop it, otherwise it will blend in with the dust bunnies.

Cool addition. I dont have any microscopic coins to share :/

 

Yeah, I second that advice, based on personal experience. I eventually found my lost tritatemorion, and it hasn't come out of its flip since.

 

Thanks for the advice/warnings, brothers ...

I hear ya => this other lil' recent sweetie of mine is 5mm x 8mm ... oh, and I made sure that the area was isolated as the coin made it from the flip into its permanent home, in one of my 10 ancient-albums ...





=> yah, it's kinda funny, because I seem to like coins on the "extremes" ... I like 'em super-tiny and I like the nice ol' pond-skippers as well!!

.... oh, ummm ... and I like all of the other sizes as well (I just seem to love coins, in general)

 

It truly is a beauty little brother.

 

Thanks, gang ... I'm glad that you're liking my new lil' friend ...

hey, it's finally Spring here (+double-digits!!) ... "finally" ... melt-melt-melt

 

What a awesome coin steve, there's no wagon in sight at the x6 household. it might be small, but very large in date..
Glad you are warming up, we keep having rain on and off. tonight is coin club, i'm making white chicken chili, will be awesome on this cool, wet evening. hope my Ancient club dealer show's tonight haven't seen him for a couple months. go away wagon go away...

 

Sounds like an optimistic and cozy ol' night at the West Coast Coin Club

=> good luck, brother (oh, and your dinner sounds awesome!!)

 

Oh ... ummm, I guess I should have been polite and invited you coin-comrades in a wee bit of coin showmanship ...

=> please feel free to wow me with your Ionia-examples and/or your really wee small examples ... thanks, gang

 

My tiniest:

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MACEDON, Pangeion region
Uncertain mint, 5th century BC
AR trihemitetartemorion (trihemiobol), 5 mm, 0.26 gm
Obv: monkey squatting left
Rev: round shield or pellet within incuse square
Ref: "Uncertain Thraco-Macedonian Coins, Part II", Nomismatika Khronika (1998), 67

Sitting atop a 48 mm Ptolemy II:

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And the coin when I dropped it on some carpet in my haste to show it off to a co-worker. Took half an hour to find!

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http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/tiny.html

I have shown my Tiny Treasures so many times that I assume all are bored with them.

 

Man, I "never" get tired of seeing cool coins ... thanks for posting!!

 

Never!

 

I don't know if I have posted before my current housing for my 75 smallest coins. These trays of tubs (1.5" diameter, 36 per box) come with foam packing and a glass topped cardboard box. These can be dropped without opening and found on the rug but you have to open them to see the other side of the coin. I also keep my Akragas tooth in one of these just because it is too thick to keep in other options I have tried. These are not round slabs! The tops come off and go on again as I wish.

 

A most excellent system!

 

that's a wonderful little coin stevex. considering the oval shape, is it 6mm at its widest or narrowest?...or maybe you wont know until you get it?

 

=> sorry dude, I don't have the lil' darling in-hand, yet (as always, I'll attempt to remember to respond once the coin arrives)

 

=> I use similar round specimen boxes to house my two scarabs

 

Must....buy...a...scarab....