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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8200276, member: 110350&quot;]Welcome to the world of ancient coins! It can definitely be addictive: 4 1/2 years ago, I owned less than a dozen ancient coins. The number now is 330! So, an average of more than one new purchase per week ever since then.</p><p><br /></p><p>You made an excellent choice for your first one. Here&#039;s my only example of a similar coin, which happens to be both my oldest and my tiniest ancient coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>Mysia, Kyzikos, AR Diobol, ca. 450-400 BCE. Obv. Forepart of boar left; to right, tunny [tuna] upwards. Rev. Head of roaring lion left within incuse square.&nbsp; Seaby 3846 [Sear, David, <i>Greek Coins and their Values, Vol. 2: Asia &amp; Africa</i> (Seaby 1979)]; Von Fritze II, Group II, No. 9 (p. 36) [Von Fritze, H., &quot;Die Silberprägung von Kyzikos&quot; in <i>Nomisma</i> IX (1914), at pp. 34 - 56]; BMC 15 Mysia 108-113 [Wroth, Warwick, <i>A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Vol. 15, Mysia</i> (London, 1892) at pp. 34-35]; SNG BnF 361-366 [<i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, France, Cabinet des Médailles, Bibliothéque Nationale, Vol. 5, Mysia</i> (Paris 2001)]. 10 mm., 1.22 g., 6 h.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1436939[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t quite realize how tiny it would be until it arrived in the mail. Be careful not to drop yours on the floor, or you may never find it![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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