Where's Waldo?

The very first coin I bought out of an auction was a very tiny Æ onkia of Gela, very high grade with a beautiful deep brown patina. I opened the package right outside my office door where we had a wooden ramp leading up to the door. I didn't even get to look at it before I dropped it. I searched and searched to no avail, figuring it had fallen in between one of the cracks down to the freshly laid mulch in the flower bed below. A couple weeks later one of my co-workers walked in and handed it to me. While I was digging in the dirt, apparently it was laughing at me from up on the ramp.

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John

Even with yeoldecoins's direction I cannot see that LOL

That thing is small, not sure I've seen one that small before(but I'm pretty new to ancients still)

Wow, what could you buy with one of tiny coins, I read once they would keep these in there mouth, between there cheek and gum.....very cool...very small...

See the pictures in the recently ended Smackdown.

Last year, while looking at my kopek type set, I managed to lose the dated [1709] Peter I silver kopek (0.28g standard - never weighed my example but should be roughly that; admittedly it's pretty thin so it wasn't that tiny).
Looked all over the place, thought I lost it forever. Then randomly noticed it while clearing my computer table - almost a year later.

(Fun related-ish story: my collection, theoretically, includes a late[1] copper pulo of Tver - a coin about as tiny as the wire silver kopeks [if not tinier], but copper. It should darn well be in a ziploc baggie - and I suspect it will turn out to be in one if/when I ever find it - but I hadn't seen it in over a year.)


[1] the guy I bought it from claimed that it was from the early 16th century - one of the last issues of that ridiculously tiny denomination, ironically a distant descendant of the not-particularly-tiny Byzantine follis

I dropped an Ionian 1/24 stater the same way. I did find it after many a colorful word and repeatedly ranting, that the coin had been lost for 2500 years, then found and then lost on my watch. I realized that if I didn't find it quickly my son would have found it and I would have had to change him with a metal detector. Not sure how something like affects value.