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Message:: [QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3058405, member: 82322"]Here is a tiny one: [ATTACH=full]766690[/ATTACH] Ionia, Magnesia. 5th Century BC. AR Tetartemorion (0.15 gm, 5mm).Obv.: youthful head (of Apollo?) right, [M-A].Rev.: ΓNH, bull butting right over maeander pattern.SNG Kayhan 399 var. (without reverse legend). Cf. Hauck & Aufhäuser 19 (2006), lot 121. Most sellers describe this coin as "rare".  Perhaps it is not so rare? The type is missing in the major collections but available on the market. Eight specimens on acsearch.com are described as tetartemorions. Five more are described as hemiobols. Most are in worse condition than mine. <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2371125" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2371125" rel="nofollow">One</a> is better. Many people believe that the reason tetartemorion-sized coins are not in the public collections is that those collections were formed before metal detecting.  In uncleaned state these things look like pebbles.  It is only the blip of the detector that earns them a second look. "Apollo"'s hairstyle is very strange.  I first thought this might be Medusa because the ringlets look like snakes and because Magnesia did a bronze right-facing Medusa/bull under the Seleukids.  Alas no one likes my theory![/QUOTE]