My old numismatic desire recently have been realised: now I have a biggest EL nomination - stater from Cyzicus about 16 gram and a little EL from Phocaea 0,09 gram. This one is a 1/192 part of stater. Or, at my oppinion, it have a chances to be an ancient fouree of 1/96 part of stater. At any way they looks pretty together and I am happy to own they both. A quest to find this tiny seal was much more difficult than to buy a cyzicene Please, post yours biggest and smallest together!
My smallest is this AV 1/32 of a Dukat from Regensburg Also have the 1/32 Dukat from Nurnberg/ AV 1/4 Fanam Maratha Confederacy , biggest coin in my collection AV 1000 Schillings 1969 Uganda 1/32 Dukat 6mm. 0.06 g Nurnberg 1/32 Dukat 6mm. 0.06 g. Regensburg 1000 Schillings 58mm 142 g. 1/4 Fanam 5mm. 0.06
SMALLEST (AV) ANCIENT Carthage - Zeugitana AV 1-10th Stater-Shekel 350-320 BCE 0.94g 7.5mm Palm- Horse Head SNG COP 132 ONLY EL ANCIENT Carthage Zeugitana 310-270 BCE EL Dekadrachm-Stater 18.5mm 7.27g Tanit Horse 3 pellets in ex MAA 12 SNG COP 136
Excellent! What's on the obverse of your stater? I assume you're asking for the biggest/smallest pair within a specific type or series rather than just the biggest and smallest in our entire collections, so here are a couple of pairings that fit that bill. If I misunderstood I'll gladly post my overall biggest/smallest pairing . Largest/smallest denominations of Klazomenai winged boars: (hasty cell phone pictures; the paper background is off-white) The denomination nomenclature is inconsistent in the literature. This largest denomination is sometimes called a didrachm, sometimes a stater, and sometimes a drachm. Mine is 6.77 gm. The smallest is the hemiobol; mine is 0.27 gm. Largest/smallest denominations of Ptolemaic bronzes: The larger coin is sometimes called an octobol; mine is 48 mm (91.8 gm) and the smaller denomination, sometimes called a chalkous, is 14 mm (1.7 gm).
I read this request as wanting only electrum coins and I have none from the early Greek period. I have seen some I like but CNG has scared me off being to quick to pounce on a generic coin by selling bulk lots of the common things that I would probably want just as a sample example. The time will come when people resell the pedestrian coins or I will continue to live without. Yes, IMO, they have gold content but the weight and alloy do not justify the prices I am seeing for the ordinary ones. In electrum, I do have a later Byzantine which seems to exist in various levels of gold/silver ratio. I am not a gold fan and can not tell alloy by eye. Anyone? I was once told that cup shaped Byzantine coins have an alloy of two metals (gold/silver or silver/copper) while flat coins are more pure one metal. Confirm or deny.
Biggest and Smallest STRUCK / STAMPED Coins in My collection: Carthage AE 15-Shekel 45mm dia 7.5mm thick 102.6g vs Ionia AR Tetartemorion 4mm 0.13g dia 11 to 1 - MASS: 789 to 1 - 15-Shekel thickness is almost twice the diameter of the Tetartemorion.
WOW! This 0,06 grams are fantastic and impressive in details! For some times I am thinking about ducats too - there are a lot of beautiful coins! Oh, this AV/EL Carthage coins are one of the strong anchors thats keeps me in ancients and do not let me to "swim" to buy ducats, nobles and franc a'cheval... I have noone in my hands and always keep it in minds. Yes, I think about a pair of coins from the almost same context of place and time. Your winged boars fantastic and impressed me enoght to buy such a stater of Cyzicus in 2016 but in 2017 I have to sell it. Now I have this type. I do love this type with a man holding his fish (aimes, dreams, wishes and all his life) in strong hand )))) Hmmmm my XRF glasses indicates about a 50% AV content in this coin . I do love a several types of Byzantine coins with facing Crist portrait and I have the same minds about flat and "cup" coins. WOW this heavy bronzes impressed very much. Sometimes I am thinking about cast OLBIA with facing Demeter - this is very beatiful coin and 6 or 7 cm in diameter. But one time I have hold in hands an OLBIA 300+ grams with Athene on obverce...... but fantastic pricy....
Ivan....thank you. If, I where you I would definately expand your collecting into esp. Holy Roman Empire Dukaten, Medieval Cavalier d'ors/ Florins/ Ecus/ Goldgulden/ beautifull coinage. Here is one of my favorite "affordable" Dukaten. The massive 100/ 50/ 40 down to 10 Dukaten are only for the "Wall Street" elite Here are two nice examples/ from Regensburg/ Transylvania John
