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My smallest and my largest ancient Greek coins together (feddit.dk)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I assume it's the reason it was so infrequently struck, it was simply impractical. Might have been before bronze coinage became widespread, it was invented on Sicily around 450 BC but might not have made it to this town when they struck these tiny things.