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Message:: [QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2319563, member: 19463"]I for one would love to see someone attach this subject with effort as great as the coins are small.  Until recently, it had been easier to find information and photos of dekadrachms as it was sub obol size coins.  There has been an increase in demand for them over the last few years which means I am no longer successful when they coe to market in reasonable shape.  For those interested, my ealy interest was based on the book Early Greek Coins from the Collection of Jonathan P. Rosen by Nancy Waggoner which has gone up in price in keeping with the rise in interest in the coins.  The Rosen collection was unusual in that the collector balanced his purchases to include tiny coins as well as the usual flashy big stuff.  The first thing I noted was that my collection included several tiny coins he lacked suggesting the subject was a lot bigger than I had suspected.  Another decent group of little ones is SNG Turkey 1, The Kayhan collection but it is only on coins of Turkey so lacks the balanced coverage of Rosen who collected all Greek regions.  I have not seen the newly published second part of it but the two volumes together add up to the price of Rosen and the photography was not as good. Those who hang around here regularly are tired of seeing my little ones so I'll just post the link to one of the pages.  <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/tiny.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/tiny.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/tiny.html</a> [/QUOTE]

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