Can't Believe This Is So Small!

That is tiny!

Had to get my mind out of the gutter after that title!


Boy, that'll be the winner on Post your tiny coins thread!

It becomes easy to understand why the ancient Greeks were forced to introduce bronze coins.

The Romans did the opposite. Their original coinage was in bronze, and the higher denominated bronze pieces needed to be replaced by silver coins.

All World's money systems now use paper or plastic notes, and base metal coinage.

In the future, it will all be digital currency, and cards for smaller transactions.

I actually posted a slightly larger (and slightly newer) Mysia hemiobol a few days ago.

It was not, as it happens, the smallest coin in my collection (that title goes, as far as I can tell, to a silver kopek of Peter the Great - not the one posted over here, which is actually a bit larger, but a very similar one from 1709 that I hadn't seen in several years).

I still want to get a smaller one sometime (preferably another Greek fraction, but I probably couldn't afford that).
My extreme nearsightedness actually makes appreciating such tiny coins much easier (just need to take my glasses off), and there's even actually a theory that the Greeks used nearsighted mint workers to make them originally.