What's the smallest coin you own? Pardon the Darkside venturing...

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  • Crypto
    Crypto Posts: 4,098 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    1/20th ounce panda just edges out a trime

    11.5$ Southern Dollars, The little “Big Easy” set

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  • nencoin
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    It's hard to imagine a coin smaller than this one. Can anyone here identify it? FYI, the comparison coin is a Cal Gold 25 Cent piece!

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  • 1984worldcoins
    1984worldcoins Posts: 776 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Besides the Panama pill, here is another very small one (Maundy penny,11mm, 0,47 gr):

  • Treashunt
    Treashunt Posts: 6,748 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Weiss said:

    They really should change that label, since the swastika did not exist for another 2500 [approx] years.

    Proper name: Flyfot.

    Fylfot

    Fylfot or fylfot cross, is an English symbol equivalent to the sauwastika, or left-facing swastika. It is a cross with perpendicular extensions, usually at 90° or close angles, radiating in the same direction. Its right-facing variant is referred to as a gammadion. Wikipedia

    Also, the swastika was turned in the other direction & rotated.

    Frank

    BHNC #203

  • Crackout
    Crackout Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I'm not sure where I got these novelty coins, but the young kids sure love them!


  • crazyhounddog
    crazyhounddog Posts: 14,252 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
  • USMC_6115
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  • JeffM
    JeffM Posts: 587 ✭✭✭✭
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    I own the world's smallest gold coin - the famous 2020 Switzerland 1/4 franc (1/500 oz.) This is one of my prized coins.

  • lkenefic
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    @massscrew said:

    wow!! I think we have a winner!!

    Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

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  • USMC_6115
    USMC_6115 Posts: 3,102 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 24, 2021 2:13PM
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    @lkenefic said:

    @massscrew said:

    wow!! I think we have a winner!!

    From Southern India - Gold Fanam compliments to @lordmarcovan :)

  • LanceNewmanOCC
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    @MrEureka said:
    I could bore you with another piece of Cal Gold, but let’s go with this one purchased a couple of minutes ago instead.

    this that overstruck, doublestruck or just has tons of re-punching?

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  • Jzyskowski1
    Jzyskowski1 Posts: 6,650 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 25, 2021 9:04AM
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    There tiny. I recall their plated. My grandson enjoys them. Some where I have a set of miniatures from the 90’s. Cent - half 😉

    🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶

  • MrEureka
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    @LanceNewmanOCC said:

    @MrEureka said:
    I could bore you with another piece of Cal Gold, but let’s go with this one purchased a couple of minutes ago instead.

    this that overstruck, doublestruck or just has tons of re-punching?

    I think it's double struck. A little unfortunate for a coin like this, but I still like it.

    Andy Lustig

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  • LanceNewmanOCC
    LanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 1, 2021 12:25PM
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    i don't have any travancore any more so here are some that are smaller than a united states cent!

    the swiss coin is one i found in a bank roll. hehe

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  • coinsarefun
    coinsarefun Posts: 21,781 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 13, 2021 4:15PM
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    1932 Los Angeles Olympics Sprinter 1/2 Gold Gilt MS67. 13MM

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    CoinsAreFun Pictorials Album FOR SALE SOME will mark final ones before auction
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  • joeykoins
    joeykoins Posts: 18,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 14, 2021 12:40PM
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    These three are my smallest coins in my collection. These are so awesome! These coins even have a back story. Here they are.

    All three are Canadian 5c

    All are 15.50mm and 92% silver.
    1913


    Mintage 5,000,000+
    1918


    Mintage 6,500,000+
    1888


    Mintage only 1,000,000!
    Also this 1888 can be the RPD Last 8 variety?

    Back Story

    The way I found these. At my bank, in the trash can next to the coin machine! Yes!
    Unbelievable, that someone would throw these historical silver gems away. Thank you, whom ever did! Lol.

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  • joeykoins
    joeykoins Posts: 18,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Weiss said:

    You are the winner, dude! WOW. B)<3B)

    "Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!

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  • SonnyD
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    BST📋✅️: mainejoe

  • Zoins
    Zoins Posts: 34,489 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @MrEureka said:
    I could bore you with another piece of Cal Gold, but let’s go with this one purchased a couple of minutes ago instead.

    Elizabeth I, second issue, penny, mm. martlet (1560-61), wire line inner circles, bust 3I, E D G ROSA SINE SPINA, rev. long cross fourchée over large shield, CIVITAS LONDON, wt. 0.55gm. (S.2558; N.1988; Brown & Comber 3H), almost extremely fine
    *ex R. C. Lockett II, Glendining, 6 November 1958, lot 3305 [pt.]

    Lady Liberty?

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  • PerryHall
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    @Zoins said:

    @MrEureka said:
    I could bore you with another piece of Cal Gold, but let’s go with this one purchased a couple of minutes ago instead.

    Elizabeth I, second issue, penny, mm. martlet (1560-61), wire line inner circles, bust 3I, E D G ROSA SINE SPINA, rev. long cross fourchée over large shield, CIVITAS LONDON, wt. 0.55gm. (S.2558; N.1988; Brown & Comber 3H), almost extremely fine
    *ex R. C. Lockett II, Glendining, 6 November 1958, lot 3305 [pt.]

    Lady Liberty?

    No. That's Queen Elizabeth I.

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  • asheland
    asheland Posts: 24,548 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    How about the smallest still legal tender note? :o:D

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    asheland Posts: 24,548 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Close up:

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  • vulcanize
    vulcanize Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The 1 Kopek and 1 Indian Naya Paisa would be the contenders in my set :)

    https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/u-s-coins/quarters/PCGS-2020-quarter-quest/album/247091

  • joeykoins
    joeykoins Posts: 18,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 14, 2021 10:30PM
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    Just picked this up today to add to my "small silver coins" collection.
    16mm / 7,000,000+ Mintage

    1937 3 Pence


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  • lkenefic
    lkenefic Posts: 9,519 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    This is now my smallest US coin...

    Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

    Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
  • alefzero
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  • Sapyx
    Sapyx Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    My smallest is a tetartemorion from ancient Teos.

    A tetartemorion is 1/4 of an obol (the type of coin SDSportsFan posted), or 1/24th of a silver drachm. It's 5 mm across, 0.2 grams of silver.

    Believe it or not, this is not the smallest coin the ancient Greeks made. They also made hemitetartemorions which, as the name might indicate, are half of a tetartemorion.

    In ancient Greece, before the invention of bronze coinage, "small change" was quite a literal term.

    What's more astonishing than the sheer tininess of these coins, is the artwork they nevertheless put on them. Somebody with a really sharp eye and steady hand (they hadn't invented magnifying glasses back then, either) carved a teeny tiny griffin's head onto a teeny tiny die, and struck this coin.

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