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Message:: [QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 1992198, member: 44316"]List members have posted small fractional silver coins before. This one (compared to a US cent in a way pioneered by Doug) is 5 mm and 0.235 grams, which is 1/24 siglos. The fabric, like that of the sigloi, is lumpy and thick, making it smaller in diameter than most coins of its weight, which is already extremely small. The coin is remarkably well-centered for such a tiny piece. [ATTACH=full]356844[/ATTACH] The design is the Persian king in a running/kneeling posture right and the reverse is a punch mark without design. The comparable full siglos is very common. The Klein catalog of Greek fractions (Herr Klein collected small coins; klein = small in German) would date it to 510-486 BC under Darius I. Full size sigloi were minted for a long time after Darius I. All of the very small sizes with this type are rare; it is hard to find references for them. I don't know what evidence there is that this should be a fraction of the early type and not a fraction of the later very-similar sigloi. Anyway, it is very old and very small.[/QUOTE]