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I nearly entered until you decided to ban silver - why can I ask seems rather Draconian.
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The challenger makes the rules. Have we already done smallest silver? I can't remember.
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Russian Federation
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...Ironically enough, I've had pretty much the same idea before, but had to skip on it, as it would have been posted immediately after an extremely similar round. (I hoped to do it in a later round, but you did it first.) I'll have to check if I have an even smaller 5th century AE4 [EDIT: turns out I do have at least one, but I'd need to get a camera to photograph it], but I've previously described this one as 10 mm in diameter...    Roman Empire, Leo I, AE4 Obverse: DN LEO [PF AVG] (or similar) Reverse: monogram in wreath (mintmark off flan) 10 mm, weight not taken The last photo is on a British sixpence for scale. |
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Have we already done smallest silver? I can't remember. I know we did smallest overall early on, but pretty sure we haven't done smallest copper or silver before. Good idea for whoever wins this round?  "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Small copper is a lot harder than small silver or small gold; few civilizations ever produced copper coins less than 10mm, and I believe that the Travancore cash are the smallest modern coppers. This is my smallest round copper that is firmly identifiable Ancient India, post-Maurya kingdoms of Ujjain, or early Satavahana Empire C. 150-100 BC 6mm, 0.34g (1/8 karshapana?) Obv: Elephant walking right Rev: Open circles (Ujjain symbol)   |
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Obv: Elephant walking right
Rev: Open circles (Ujjain symbol) If you say so  |
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If you say so I can kind of see it, but if it's where I think it is, it's really off center (only one of the four circles is visible, plus a small arc of another at 11:30). |
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Nice one @finn! My smallest copper coin is also from the Indian subcontinent. Here is a AE Unit from the Malwa Empire dating to 300-500 AD. You can make out a conch shell on one side and the characters for Ji Shnu on the other. The diameter is about 8 mm.   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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India, Malwa: Jishnu copper coin. Nice coin!  |
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Edited by pepactonius
04/05/2020 9:06 pm
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 Last call for the contest!
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Ancient India, post-Maurya kingdoms of Ujjain, or early Satavahana Empire
C. 150-100 BC
6mm, 0.34g (1/8 karshapana?)
We have a winner: Finn235 ..The floor is yours. Thank you all for your participation! |
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I wonder what challenge Finn235 will present us.  |
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Thanks guys! Continuing the theme of coin weights, diameters, etc, here's a bit of a curveball! Post your biggest lightweight metal coin! We'll define lightweight as weighing 5.00 grams or less Winner will be the coin with the biggest diameter in mm. Coins can be made of any metal, but no paper, plastic, wood, etc. Trade tokens are permissible, as long as they have a denomination. Challenge coin - French Polynesia, 5 Francs 1977 31mm and 3.79g  Good luck! |
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Sounds like fun. |
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