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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 3794345, member: 80804&quot;]I would normally start off suggesting the prolific mint-cities of the Danube basin and their seemingly endless variety of small and tiny Æ&#039;s created for the various Severans - there are many different serpent-themed reverse types.</p><p>However, this appears to have a tapered flan - a thin conic section with a trapezoidal cross-section, the result of a particular flan-production method. Although flans of this sort are found in a number of places, the primary places in which they were used were Syria (mainly under the Seleukids) and Egypt during the Ptolemaic era. </p><p>First, although the portrait rings no bells immediately, I&#039;d have a good look at listings of the smaller denominations from Egypt (ca. 2nd century A.D.?). Your coin is just about exactly the correct size to be a dichalcon - the smallest Æ denomination produced in any quantity. These seldom had any obverse legend (to be fair, the Seleukids almost never put any legend on any of their coins&#039; obverses) and the only characters tend to be an &quot;L&quot; (the hieratic form of the hieroglyph for &quot;year&quot;) and a regnal year number in Greek numerals. Α, Β, Γ, Δ, ε, Σ, Ζ, Η, Θ, Ι, and so on...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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