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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2179770, member: 19463&quot;]Decisions, decisions.&nbsp; Every time this subject comes up I have to show my smallest diameter coin but it weighs twice what my smallest by weight does.&nbsp; When we get in this weight class thickness and condition count a lot.&nbsp; Under 5mm diameter:</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/0phocentcomb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Phocaea, Ionia - Silver 1/8 obol? - Late Sixth Century BC - 5mm, .1g</p><p>Female head &#039;Smyrna type&#039; left / 4 part incuse - Rosen 598</p><p><br /></p><p>Almost a full mm wider but weighing only 0.05g is the thing and flaking hexas of Syracuse.&nbsp; I suspect it would weigh close to 0.1g were it not for the loss to being buried in soil as are most of these little guys.&nbsp; People rarely hoarded a pot of&nbsp; a thousand of these.&nbsp; The were lost singly and suffered as expected from field find coins.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]421882[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Also ran&quot; is this huge 0.2g tetartemorion of Hekatomnos, Satrap of Caria,&nbsp; 395-377 B.C.&nbsp; It is about the same diameter as the Syracuse but weighs four times as much despite the fact it also shows surface peeling ruining what I believe would have been one of the most beautiful tiny coins ever.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]421883[/ATTACH] </p><p>Notice the lower half of the reverse 3/4 face of Apollo still has its &#039;skin&#039; but most of the surface has laminated revealing the reticulated core. There are better and worse both in grade and style.&nbsp; Finding the one I want will be hard.&nbsp; This is not bad:</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1822060" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1822060" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1822060</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A few others of my Tiny Treasures are here:</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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