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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2436580, member: 19463&quot;]Had the Greeks known about germ theory, the world would have had to had more wars to kill off the excess population.&nbsp; I wonder if they would have invented antibiotics 2000 years ago and resistant bacteria would have had longer to have killed us all.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Hemiobols are nice and give me a lot of fun at shows.&nbsp; I ask new (to me) dealers if they have and really small Greek silver.&nbsp; Some show drachms; some even have a few obols.&nbsp; I really like fractions smaller than that.&nbsp; My lightest is about 0.05g but the smallest diameter one (between 4 and 5 mm depending on how you measure) is much thicker so it weighs twice as much.&nbsp; Don&#039;t worry about my passing the germy little things to you.&nbsp; I keep my under 10mm coins separately because it is the part of my collection my daughter intends to keep when I&#039;m gone.&nbsp; My grandson even said he likes them (but doesn&#039;t want the big stuff either).&nbsp; </p><p>I have several pages showing them on the website but my favorite photo is the Phocaea 0.1g on cent.</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/0phocentcomb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Phocaea, Ionia - Silver 1/8 obol? - Late Sixth Century BC - 5mm, .1g</p><p>Female head &#039;Smyrna type&#039; left / 4 part incuse - Rosen 598</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/tinyset.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>detail here:</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>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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