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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 7737780, member: 87809&quot;]Impressive small coins all! </p><p><br /></p><p>Usually I fall for larger ones, but I do have a few small just because they caught my eyes.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is my smallest one, an example of the very earliest form of coinage; a type-less electrum globule, weighed to a specific standard, with a simple square punch mark on one side (two or three punch marks on larger denominations):</p><p><br /></p><p>EL 1/12 stater, uncertain Ionian mint, ca. 650 - 600 B</p><p>1.168 g, 7.7 mm</p><p>SNG Kayhan 676; SNG Von Aulock 7763; Rosen 324; Boston MFA 1750;</p><p>Ob.: smooth plain globular surface</p><p>Rev.: incuse roughly square pyramidal punch;</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1325026[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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