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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 7792873, member: 82322"]Yours looks great! Small coins suffer when posted here, due to the extreme enlargement.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is another, not as nice as yours:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1337773[/ATTACH] </p><p>IONIA, Magnesia on the Meander, circa 400 BC, AE8 0.44g</p><p>Nilus Coins, January 2007, NYINC show (misidentified)</p><p><br /></p><p>Most books on Greek coins explain that the Greeks struck small silver coins because of the intrinsic value of silver and the need for small change. The fact of tiny AEs is not discussed. Tiny AEs in my collection seem to be mostly products of Asia Minor. It is unusual to see a tiny AE from modern Greece. Was the metal content the motivation? Ease of striking?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 7792873, member: 82322"]Yours looks great! Small coins suffer when posted here, due to the extreme enlargement. Here is another, not as nice as yours: [ATTACH=full]1337773[/ATTACH] IONIA, Magnesia on the Meander, circa 400 BC, AE8 0.44g Nilus Coins, January 2007, NYINC show (misidentified) Most books on Greek coins explain that the Greeks struck small silver coins because of the intrinsic value of silver and the need for small change. The fact of tiny AEs is not discussed. Tiny AEs in my collection seem to be mostly products of Asia Minor. It is unusual to see a tiny AE from modern Greece. Was the metal content the motivation? Ease of striking?[/QUOTE]
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