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Yesterday my tiny monkey arrived.  I was showing it off to a co-worker. "Wow, it would be bad if I dr.... ...dropped this. [shriek]!" 20 minutes of furniture moving, three people belly-crawling on the floor, the room on lockdown, finally found it. Whew! Here's what it looked like (yes, the coin is in this picture)  |
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Is it 8 ribs in 1/3rd from the top and on its side in the furrow of the carpet?
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Thank goodness, I'd have been here all day looking otherwise! right now I can get out of bed.......
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Man, thats a cool one. But tiiiiny (what is that...a hemiobol?). I need to find out how much these are - I bet its not cheap!
And dont forget its 'Where's Wally?'! Id probably have resorted to using a Hoover and sifting through the dirt to find it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I always look like Velma after she lost her glasses   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A hand vac was going to be the next step.
It was found right where I thought I dropped it. The lighting was bad and I looked and felt that 3 square feet several times before finding it. We moved the desk and that allowed better light, then it was quickly spotted.
Ben, the denomination terminology is inconsistently used, but I've seen it called a trihemiobol or a tetartemorion.
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Pillar of the Community
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 Dwayne! That is exactly what I looked like yesterday. My far vision is not good so I wear glasses, but now that my eyes are aging I have to take them off to see up close. Had to keep my face just the right distance from the carpet to focus properly. Around the house I don't wear my glasses. Then I have trouble finding them because I can't see well far away (and I often have clutter everywhere). Worse, I've even done the stereotypical old person thing a few times-- spend 10 minutes looking for my glasses only to find them pushed up on my head. |
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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
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Tiny coin. Excellent eye sight YOC I would have never found it.
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Pillar of the Community
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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)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I STILL DON'T SEE IT EITHER!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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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... |
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United Kingdom
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That is so cute! What is on the other side?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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See the pictures in the recently ended Smackdown.
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United Kingdom
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THAT one, I didn't recognize it! I didn't realize it was so tiny. Well done on finding it.
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Posted 11/20/2013 05:38 am
