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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2528930, member: 19463&quot;]My coin show proceeds included four Greek silver coins weighing under a gram each.&nbsp; I like Tiny Treasures.&nbsp; My page on the subject has not been updated for a long time but might be new to some:</p><p><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></p><p><br /></p><p>Largest at 0.74g is a 1/8 stater (or so they say) of Lete (or so they say) with a squatting satyr.&nbsp; There are two dots behind him which may have had another above them making the 1/4 denomination more likely but I&#039;m of the opinion that it is much too small to be that.&nbsp; I&#039;m not all that sure of the ID and tend to prefer the experts who list these as unknown Macedon/Thrace.&nbsp; This is a good coin to buy if you want to feel ignorant.&nbsp; Like many of the coins I bought from one dealer at that show, the coin has not been cleaned using modern methods and has traces of horn silver.&nbsp; You probably can find cleaner ones from recent finds that have been spiffied up more. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]540253[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The next two were called hemiobols but strike me as more likely half of that (tetartemorion).&nbsp; These are attributed to Thasos and have a dolphin right (common) and left (less so).</p><p>8mm 0.22g</p><p>[ATTACH=full]540254[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>5x7mm 0.29g&nbsp; (thicker)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]540255[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally shown here is yet another common Kolophon tetartemorion (1/4 obol) with Apollo head right and TE ligate naming the denomination.&nbsp; There are also two dots on this one (and why I bought it).&nbsp; I &#039;gather&#039; these.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]540256[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;There are many variations of these (retrograde TE with facing head of Apollo, plain old ordinary and one I really like with a cicada (last 3 shown here are not new to me).&nbsp; These were made for many years and exist in quantity if you want one.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]540264[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]540265[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]540266[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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