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This is the smallest circulation coin I ever had in my hands

YQQYQQ Posts: 3,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
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It is a model Quarter Farthing
Date is: 1848
weight is: 0.61 gram
diam. is: 10.5 mm
thickness is : .60 mm
it is on the bay right now and nobody seems to be interested. :'(

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/362625357590

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    Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I was expecting something much smaller - in gold. :wink:

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    sylsyl Posts: 905 ✭✭✭
    edited April 24, 2019 12:46PM

    The prices listed are from an old "Unusual World Coins" by Cuhaj and Michael, two long-time Krause folks. The prices in the new one I have (2011)are about 25% higher. The bi-metallic ones with young Vicky on them are in the $100's once into UNC range.... AND YQQ, They get even smaller:


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    ElmhurstElmhurst Posts: 775 ✭✭✭

    The Turkish one Kurus from ca. 1970 may be smaller.

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    bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 9,964 ✭✭✭✭✭

    i've got some tiny turkish gold around .4 grams

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    carabonnaircarabonnair Posts: 1,392 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It might help to include a photo with another coin for scale.

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    RexfordRexford Posts: 1,140 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 25, 2019 7:13AM

    Nothing beats my 1/32 ducat at 0.1gms >:)

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    sylsyl Posts: 905 ✭✭✭

    Wow! And I thought that Panama pills were small!

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    YQQYQQ Posts: 3,276 ✭✭✭✭✭

    SYL, what are panama pills?

    thanks guys for all your comments.

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    sylsyl Posts: 905 ✭✭✭

    Google it ... really small coins, silver

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    SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The silver 2½ centesimos from Panama, issued only in 1904 (KM# 1), is nicknamed the "Panama pill" because it's, well, pill-sized. It's the world's smallest reeded-edge silver circulating coin. Franklin Mint re-issued the Panama Pill in the 1970s and 1980s (KM 34.1), though of course not for circulation; they were sold in Franklin Mint sets and as a pair with giant 20 balboa coins and marketed as "world's largest and smallest coins".

    And, just to be pedantic, I'd also point out that the OP's "model quarter farthing" isn't a "circulation coin", as it's not an official government issue and was never intended for circulation. They were produced as toy money for children, I believe.

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    SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,479 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Quarter and half farthing coins were made for circulation in Ceylon - the half farthing was the smallest denomination coin legal for circulation in the United Kingdom in the 1840s, but the quarter farthings were strictly for Ceylon.

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    YQQYQQ Posts: 3,276 ✭✭✭✭✭

    well, I never expected so many responses and so much information
    thank you all for taking the time respond. :)

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    ashelandasheland Posts: 22,694 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Weiss said:
    Panama Pill ;)

    That picture is awesome!

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    MasonGMasonG Posts: 6,268 ✭✭✭✭✭

    These are pretty small.

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    YQQYQQ Posts: 3,276 ✭✭✭✭✭

    wow, and I thought my coin was pretty tiny...
    thanks everyone for your responses.

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    sarikanairsarikanair Posts: 154 ✭✭✭

    Wow! That’s quite tiny..

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