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Message:: [QUOTE="Alegandron, post: 4594670, member: 51347"]I have several Tetartemorions, all amazingly small, but fun to collect.  For what you are "getting", they are a little expensive.  I have posted and searched other sites to get attribution info, or clarity.  The common comments are: "You are not really going to get much more info.""They were small, dropped, and later found in Markets.""They are never found as a Hoard.""Difficult to identify""We don't know why they used those designs."Etc., etc. etc. These were the SMALL CHANGE that folks used when buying everyday items at the markets.  These were made BEFORE AE / Bronze was adopted as coin metal.  They represented a tiny fraction of the larger SILVER coins being minted.  They probably got lost EVERYWHERE due to their tiny size, and probly lost a lot more than any other coin.  HOWEVER, due to their tiny sizes, they are probably very difficult to find them in great quantity, ergo, perhaps a lot of attribution detail is lost.  Still, they are purdy cool to me! Here are a couple DINKY lions: [ATTACH=full]1137798[/ATTACH]Ionia Miletos AR Tetartemorion  5.6mm 0.21g Roaring Lion Hd - Bird Klein 430 SNG Kay 941 [ATTACH=full]1137799[/ATTACH]ASIA MINOR Uncertain mint AR Tetartemorion Lion - Incuse 5mm 0.13g[/QUOTE]