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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2307574, member: 19463&quot;]I love the little silver but why stop with the huge obols?&nbsp; Many of the small coins get called by Athenian names like obol when they really were small fractions in other systems.&nbsp; In some cases we know the name and in some we don&#039;t.&nbsp; The coin below might be called a 1/8 obol at .1g but I really doubt the people of Phocaea called it that.&nbsp; It is from one of my pages on &#039;Tiny Treasures&#039;.</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></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/microdigital.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/microdigital.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/microdigital.html</a></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/0phocentcomb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>High on my want list is a 1/8th obol of Athens.&nbsp; I have never seen one I believe is from there but occasionally we see copies from the East in small size.&nbsp; My favorite full obol is this one from the early period at Athens when the owl was shown with three separate tail feathers rather than one unified prong.&nbsp; I need a better photo (challenge coming).</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/athobol3t.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>I call the two below (each 0.7g) 1/16 shekels.&nbsp; They are from the region that produced your coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sidon - note the different Phoenician letters between king and lion</p><p>[ATTACH=full]464633[/ATTACH] </p><p>Biblos</p><p>[ATTACH=full]464634[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I admit getting a kick out of going to a show and asking to see fractional silver.&nbsp; Most dealers get out drachms.&nbsp; They will have plenty of tetradrachms but few really tiny coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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