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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 3599468, member: 87809&quot;]Awesome small &quot;oldest coins&quot;. Impressive how they could struck those tiny coins, no wonder a few were struck off-center. And how could those people carry these tiny coins without loosing them? Did they have a purse or something?</p><p><br /></p><p>Even though the oldest coins are not my primary interest, my husband said he wanted a really old coin, he chose this one and a plain globular type dated 650 - 600 BC, .... and I couldn&#039;t say no<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is the first one: </p><p>Mysia, Kyzikos (Kapu Dagh, Turkey) ca. 600 - 550 BC, EL Hemihekte</p><p><br /></p><p>8.7 mm maximum diameter, 1.299 g (seller&#039;s measurements)</p><p>Ref.: Hurter-Liewald III 5.2; SNG Von Aulock 7255 (fish above off flan); BMC Mysiap. 18, 2 (hekte); von Fritze 2; Nomisma VII2</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: head of tuna fish left, jaws closed, backbone protruding from truncation at right, pellet as eye, two pellets right, smaller tuna fish to right above</p><p><br /></p><p>Rev.: irregular quadripartite incuse square</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]962993[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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