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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4589183, member: 110350"]From the very large (see my recent "My First Sestertius" thread) to the very tiny: I saw one or two of these posted in this thread and elsewhere, and decided that I wanted one: Mysia, Kyzikos, AR Diobol, ca. 450-400 BCE. Obv. Forepart of boar left; to right, tunny upwards. Rev. Head of roaring lion left within incuse square.  Seaby No. 3846 [Sear, David, Greek Coins and their Values, Vol. 2: Asia & Africa (Seaby 1979)]; Von Fritze II, Group II, No. 9 (p. 36) [Von Fritze, H., "Die Silberprägung von Kyzikos" in Nomisma IX (1914), at pp. 34 - 56]; BMC 15 Mysia 108-113 [Wroth, Warwick, A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 15, Mysia (London, 1892) at pp. 34-35]; SNG BnF 361-366 [Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, France, Cabinet des Médailles, Bibliothéque Nationale, Vol. 5, Mysia (Paris 2001)]. 10 mm., 1.22 g., 6 h. [ATTACH=full]1136405[/ATTACH] (I know that people have posted plenty of other coins here that are quite a bit smaller, but this is certainly the tiniest coin I have, ancient or otherwise!) Here's the page from Von Fritze II with No. 9 described: [ATTACH=full]1136406[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]