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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 5409080, member: 74834&quot;]Meantime, I found two new tinyminy fractional sigloi. Here they are having a good time together on the Lincoln Memorial.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1234199[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Achaemenid Empire. Time of Xerxes II to Artaxerxes II (c.420-375 BC), 1/32 siglos. Obv. Persian king or hero, with quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance right, drawing bow. (Though I can see only his upper part: he might even been smoking a pipe.) Rev. Incuse hollow. 5 mm, 0.17 gr. Carradice Type IV (I&#039;m afraid I can&#039;t see this).</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Achaemenid era, local issues - a nice marriage between a Greek and a Persian coin. 4th century, probably about 380-350 BC (estimate after reading the introduction to the Sunrise catalog). Tetartemorion. Uncertain mint in Cilicia? That&#039;s the coastal area around Tarsus then and Adana now, in the corner of the Mediterranean Sea. Obv. Persian king or hero, in kneeling-running stance right, holding dagger and bow. (Again, you only see his upper part, with expressive long arms). Rev. Hair-circled head facing slightly left in incuse field. 5 mm, 0.18 mm. Cf. Sunrise 98.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;m happy the seller managed to make really excellent photographs of these minuscules.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1234201[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1234202[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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