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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3058888, member: 19463&quot;]For some time I had been meaning to reweigh all my tiny coins ad this thread drove me to do it.&nbsp; Seriously, I do not know why.&nbsp; I have no reason to believe my scales are accurate to the advertised .01g and I have weighed the same coins more than once and got different answers.&nbsp; I will give the second digits but I don&#039;t believe in them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have often expressed doubt about the practice of collectors forcing names on denominations.&nbsp; Athens may have called a coin tetartemorion but another city might call it hexas and another 1/24 stater.&nbsp; We do not always know.&nbsp; I certainly do not.&nbsp;&nbsp; These are some small ones.&nbsp; Name them as you must.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kyzikos .22g&nbsp; ex Steve x6 Tunny fish</p><p>[ATTACH=full]766856[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Rhegion .10g lion head facing / RE</p><p>[ATTACH=full]766860[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Syracuse hexas (two dots) Arathusa head .08g The first time I weighed it, the scales failed to register above 0 but after it set there a while it zoomed up (my previous scales said .05 but it must be eating too much???).&nbsp; This number is not significant. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]766859[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>uncertain Cilicia .20g&nbsp; Herakles with club over shoulder / lion with spear in mouth</p><p>[ATTACH=full]766861[/ATTACH] </p><p>uncertain Cilicia .20g Apollo? / Ares?[ATTACH=full]766862[/ATTACH] </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Mylassa, Caria lion / bird .16g</p><p>[ATTACH=full]766863[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Kebren, Troas .19g&nbsp; ram / lion</p><p>[ATTACH=full]766864[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Phokaia, Ionia .15g&nbsp; This is my smallest diameter coin at about 4mm but it is thicker than some that are larger in diamter. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]766865[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Hekatomos, Caria .20g lion 3/4 facing head - I consider the artwork on these dies exceptional but the surfaces are poor. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]766867[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>....finally one we really can call a tetartemorion from Kolophon&nbsp; .22g&nbsp; The reverse retrograde TE abbreviates the denomination. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]766868[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>That is the ten allowed on one post.&nbsp; Combined, the ten weigh under 2g.</p><p>Some of these are on my page below with some of their fat cousins that still qualify as Tiny Treasures.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </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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