Post Your Smallest Coin
SilverProofQuarter1883
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Just picked this one at the shop. It’s as small as my pinky!
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1977 cent.
Smaller than a grain of sand.
(Did I win?)
peacockcoins
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I went to the eBay to see what they had in tiny coins and found a whole niche. There I found this crappy looking Nixon mini-cent; I looked at the reverse and discovered the prototype for the reverse of the 2019 Lincoln Birthplace Commemorative.
My smallest coin: I bought it from a local who sells the stuff he finds outside the ruins of Ephesus, Turkey.
In addition to telling me that it is a genuine Lidian stater, he cautioned me that he or I would be arrested for possessing it. For kickers, he added that he had regular collectors from abroad who returned to purchase the gold that he found. I gave him forty-five bucks for six coins (three silver-colored fakes, two smooth bronze ones). Even though I did not think that it was real, I did not care to confuse the customs officials. I removed a rivet from my belt and jammed it in, I threw the others in my pocket with a bunch of change.
1904 Panama 2.5 Centavos. “The Panama Pill”
It even has actual luster... What do I win?
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
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.
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.
...I must've missed the legal tender requirement in OP's post.
Sorry for the intense anxiety I have caused you today
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
Smallest in silver I have .
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20th Century Type Set
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The one on the left
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@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
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
I mistakenly put my Pan-Pac slug in the 'shrink machine'.
In retrospect, I probably should have left it alone....
Me thinks you win.
That's because it's "Goin', Goin', Gone!"
Yeah, sneeze and you’d blow the thing away.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
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This one is probably my smallest coin, although I have a tiny Franklin Mint medal somewhere that claims to be the smallest something, I’d have to do a treasure hunt to find it though, so small I keep misplacing it 😉
Mr_Spud
Panama. One of my favorite works coins.
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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?
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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
Cool thread by the way.
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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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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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.
I believe the US G$1 T-1 is slightly smaller than the 3C silver:
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Not quite a “coin” but small!
Thank for posting this, I actually have one with a clip, but I cannot find an image. If I do I will definitely add it to the thread. It is without a doubt the smallest clipped error in my collection.
Sean Reynolds
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Nice repunched date on that trime, I think that one is in the CPG too.
I have one and I will make a note to measure this for you. I also have the Whitman Bookshelf type album for Panama, I could measure the hole in that book for the Pill also if that would be helpful.
Sean Reynolds
"Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor