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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 3677772, member: 84744&quot;]I wasn&#039;t aware of this denomination either until I saw it for auction.&nbsp; It&#039;s listed in Dumbarton Oaks as #23 and Sear as 1512A.&nbsp; The die diameter is way too small to be a full miliaresion, and the weight is too small as well, even for a clipped one; in addition note the presence of a globe at the bottom of the cross, absent from the full miliaresion.&nbsp; Here&#039;s a clipped full miliaresion, with a diameter of 22mm and weighing 1.8g (vs. 16mm and 0.76g for my coin):</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/45/1929/1873400.m.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3230866" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3230866" rel="nofollow">the only other half</a> listed on acsearch (0.88g, no diameter given):</p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/55/3100/3230866.m.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the relevant DO pages (see fn 204 on the first):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]987587[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]987588[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The Goldberg example above is one of the coins in the note (private collection in Buffalo), the other is in a Swiss collection.&nbsp; Since the 2016 Goldberg example was the second known, I infer that mine is the third... though I&#039;m all ears if anyone knows of any others! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The three weights (0.76g, 0.85g, and 0.88g) make me wonder if it&#039;s actually a third miliaresion, which was the fraction introduced much later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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