world's largest coin (diameter)?

does anyone know what the world's largest coin (in diameter) in current circulation is?

the australian 50 cent piece?

thanks!

 

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Well, I believe Canada has the largest coin in the world.... it is the 100kg 1 million dollar gold coin.... I don't know the demenisions.

But as far as the largest circulated coin goes.... I don't know.

 

there was this huge mohur issued by shahjahan might actually be bigger than what the canadian mint made i have it posted somewhere on CT only have to find it

 

here i found this but i dont know what happened to the big mohur? i cant find it

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1600_1699/jahangir/hugecoin/hugecoin.html

 

Circulating guys, circulating......

 

hey the mohur circulated it took a little too much effort but it circulated

 

I have nothing of value to offer in this conversation but one thing . . . . This is a very very interesting question. It's gotta be one of the best questions I've heard in a long long time. I love questions like this. It makes me think!

 

My guess is that the Aussie 50¢ is the largest circulating coin, really circulating, coin around.

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/BigNickel.jpg/800px-BigNickel.jpg
....... not sure if it would fit in your pocket though

 

From Wikipedia:

"With a mass of 15.55 grams and a diameter of 31.51 mm, the Australian 50-cent coin is one of the largest coins in circulation today."

Of course it doesn't say THE largest, but ONE OF THE largest... anyone have anything over 31.51 mm?

 

Surely it is this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yap#Stone_money

 

the old canadian silver dollars are 36- 36.01 mm in diameter and were used in curculation until only fair recently (40-50 years ago) dunno if those count n those are some hefty coins i might add

 

Yes surly this is and it circulated :whistle::stooge:

 

interesting responses.... the yap seems to be closest, but still not really "current circulation"

maybe "current common circulation" would be a better question

thoughts?

 

Costa Rica 500 Colones KM#239.1 (2003-??) - 32.9mm

Vanuatu 50 Vatu KM#1 and KM#8 - 32.9mm

Unless you count the Thalers. I've read that they still circulate in places in the Arab world, but don't know firsthand whether or not that is true.

 

Accd to some associates in an otherwise unnamed oil company that went over there to Yemen in the mid 1990's the Thalers do circulate to some extent, more as a store of value than anything. They tend not circulate as in going to the store and buying oranges with them, but they are more like you would exchange a bundle of paper money for them and keep them.

 

How about the French Pacific 50 Franc, I believe it is bigger than the Australian 50 cent. 50 Vatu of Vanuatu, 5 Franc of Switzerland, 1 Kina of P.N.G, 50 sene of Tonga.

 

Yap stone money can be up to 6 feet across. The largest one was 13 ft but it was lost during the trip back to Yap. If you wan coins that actually circulated rather than staying in one place and changing ownership ther is the 10 Dalar Swedish plate money which were over two feet in size.

 

Think domestic.

With a diameter: 38.1 mm, the Ike Dollar blows away all competition.

Don't circulate you say? That's a whiney baby excuse. Ask for one at the bank the next time. You might be surprised. I got 3 on Friday from 1974.

 

According to a UK coin dealer

http://www.24carat.co.uk/mariatheresathalerframe.html

"The taler became the unofficial currency of some of the lands in North Africa, and it can still be found today in many Arabian bazaars."

The Maria Theresia taler has a diameter of 39.5 mm, and so is slightly larger than the Eisenhower dollar or the UK crown.

Later,

John