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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4425567, member: 19463&quot;]CT has had several tiny coin threads.&nbsp; Certainly the heavy weight of gold/electrum will make them &#039;smaller&#039; than silver of the same size but there are many silver coins under 0.1g.&nbsp; There will never be agreement on which coin is smallest since thickness becomes a real consideration as well as erosion.&nbsp; My smallest diameter coin is thick and weighs twice as much as come coins with larger diameters.&nbsp; Then we have to ask when proto-coins became actual coins with designs.&nbsp; I would like to know if the maker of this electrum cut that &#039;uncertain design&#039; trying to make a design or if it was just a way of holding the metal in place when striking as were some of the more evenly textured early coins.&nbsp; I have added on new tiny coins lately so you have seen mine. </p><p>Left row:</p><p>1. Syracuse, Sicily, hemilitron 440-430 BC, .3g</p><p>2. Athens, Attica, tritartemorion (3/4 obol), 393-300 BC, .5g</p><p>3. Therma, Macedon, hemiobol (1/2 obol), 510-480 BC, .3g</p><p>4.. Kolophon, Ionia, tetartemorion (1/4 obol), 430-400 BC, .2g - This coin is unusual in the monogram &#039;TE&#039; on the reverse (over the cicada) indicating the denomination.</p><p>5. Kebren, Troas, tetartemorion (1/4 obol), 400-350 B.C. .2g</p><p><br /></p><p>Right Row:</p><p>1. Phocaea, 1/8? obol discussed below</p><p>2. Mylassa, Caria, tetartemorion? (1/4 obol), 5th century BC, .1g</p><p>3. Hektatomnos, Satrap of Caria, tetartemorion 395-377 B.C., .2g</p><p>4. Syracuse, Sicily, Tyrant Gelon, hexas (1/6 litra or 1/300th of the popular dekadrachm), 485-478 BC, .05g? This is the lightest coin I have ever seen but the flaking surface of this specimen makes its weight lower than normal.</p><p>5. Rhegion, Bruttium, hemitatemorion (1/8 obol), 466-415 BC, .1g.</p><p>Thasos, Thrace, hemiobol (1/2 obol), 411-350 BC, .2g</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/tinyset.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></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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