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Size of $1 gold coin?

downhomedownhome Posts: 36
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Sorry, I hit wrong key a minute ago.

Having never seen one, I was wondering, What is the diameter of the one dollar gold coin?

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  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Think of the tip of your pinky finger.

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  • Dennis88Dennis88 Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭
    smaller than a dime.

    Look in the red book, original pic with size is in there (of all coins)

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  • PhillyJoePhillyJoe Posts: 2,706 ✭✭✭✭
    Authorized to be coined, act of March 3, 1849.
    Weight, 25.8 grains; fineness, .900

    Still looking for size.

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  • michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭✭
    the size of a type three one dollar gold is 15 mm

    and think of it this way if you had a gold dollar type three and put it on top of a roosie dime the gold dollar would fit with room to spare so you could still see an outline of the dime with the gold dollar sitting on top of the dime

    and the gold dollar is approx half the thickness of a roosie dime

    and the type one is even smaller diameter 13 mm
  • VetVet Posts: 1,513
    Liberty head 13mm
    Indian head 15mm
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,854 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Type I gold dollar at 13mm is the smallest US coin ever made. The three cent silver is the next smallest US coin at 14mm.

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,820 ✭✭✭✭✭
    BUT the 3 cent silver coin weighs less -

    Therefore the Red Book calls it the smallest U.S. coin.

    The type one gold dollar has the smallest diameter, and it WAY smaller than a modern dime.
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  • DominusDeusDominusDeus Posts: 993 ✭


    << <i>The Type I gold dollar at 13mm is the smallest US coin ever made. The three cent silver is the next smallest US coin at 14mm. >>




    California small denomination gold, $0.25 gold piece, is even smaller.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,854 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The California fractional gold (should really be called small denomination gold since the $1 pieces are not "fractionals") were not issued by the United States. Rather they were privately issued. Also, the red book is wrong. The three cent sivlers are the lightest (weight) US coin rather than the smallest (size)US coin.

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  • downhomedownhome Posts: 36
    Thanks guys. I was killing time at work during lunch and saw a listing for an 1853? dollar and just had to ask.
  • 100proof1957100proof1957 Posts: 6,231 ✭
    for those metrically challenged.

    1 MM = .0394 inches
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  • TheRavenTheRaven Posts: 4,148 ✭✭✭✭
    1 MM being 0.0394 inches, in all reality does not help.....

    Cause what the **** is 0.0394 inches.....

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