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Just picked this one at the shop. It’s as small as my pinky!


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  • pcgsregistrycollectorpcgsregistrycollector Posts: 1,949 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @braddick said:
    1977 cent.
    Smaller than a grain of sand.
    (Did I win?)


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  • KurisuKurisu Posts: 2,080 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It even has actual luster... What do I win?

    Coins are Neato!

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  • Morgan WhiteMorgan White Posts: 10,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,451 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Kurisu said:
    It even has actual luster... What do I win?

    You win nothing. Your "coin" is not, never was, legal tender. Sorry.

    Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,451 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Veep said:
    1904 Panama 2.5 Centavos. “The Panama Pill”

    The Panama Pill is the smallest coin ever produced by the US Mint.

    Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

  • KurisuKurisu Posts: 2,080 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @mr1931S said:

    @Kurisu said:
    It even has actual luster... What do I win?

    You win nothing. Your "coin" is not, never was, legal tender. Sorry.

    ...I must've missed the legal tender requirement in OP's post.
    Sorry for the intense anxiety I have caused you today :#

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  • CoinscratchCoinscratch Posts: 10,093 ✭✭✭✭✭

    .

  • MWallaceMWallace Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @lordmarcovan said:
    @MWallace posted an Indian gold fanam just a few posts above.

    This is a one-tenth fanam! 'Bout the size of a sesame seed.

    PS- note the funny typo on the ICG label. "Gold Goin". LOL

    Me thinks you win.

  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,980 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MWallace said:

    @lordmarcovan said:

    PS- note the funny typo on the ICG label. "Gold Goin". LOL

    That's because it's "Goin', Goin', Gone!"

    Yeah, sneeze and you’d blow the thing away.

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  • bramn8rbramn8r Posts: 940 ✭✭✭✭✭



  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 37,334 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MasonG said:

    Panama. One of my favorite works coins.

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  • TimNHTimNH Posts: 225 ✭✭✭✭

    Trimes for 'real money', 50c California gold (of course there are 25c golds too, I got the 50 just so you could see it at all), and then there are the 'nuggets' , do those count?

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,906 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • SuzeSuze Posts: 35 ✭✭

    If you were a little kid, esp a little girl, in 1979 you may have gotten one of these along with your SBA first day coins

  • Morgan WhiteMorgan White Posts: 10,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cool thread by the way.

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,979 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The smallest US coin is the Type 1 gold dollar at 13mm while the lightest US coin is the Type 2 and 3 silver three cent coin at 0.75 grams.

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,929 ✭✭✭✭✭

    British Maundy Penny.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,693 ✭✭✭✭✭



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  • The_Dinosaur_ManThe_Dinosaur_Man Posts: 1,129 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My smallest U.S. Coin is an 1855 trime while my smallest foreign coin is a Great Britain Maundy Penny.

    For those of you that have the Panama Pill, would anyone be able to do me the small (pun intended) favor of measuring the diameter with digital calipers? It's the last of the Panamanian coins I need an accurate diameter for before designing albums for that nation.

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  • Old_CollectorOld_Collector Posts: 435 ✭✭✭✭

    I think that my trimes are the smallest US that I have, but I got my Mom a Widow's Mite (Judean Prutah (103-76 BC)) and those are smaller, the lowest denomination that circulated in the era up to early AD times.

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