Post Your Smallest Coins!

Here's the Bogota booger:



Colombia - 1/4 Decimo - 1864

KM#143.1, 0.8500g, 0.9000ag, 0.0245oz, 11mm

 

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. Here's mine<< smallest coin of mine... 1 c of lapu lapu philippines.

 

I'm not familiar with this coin. How small is it?

Do you have a pic?

Or some measurements would help.

 

I don't have any photos of them, but I have a handful of the old German 1 Pfennigs and Euro 1 cent coins. At first glance they seem like they are the same size, however the Euro 1 cent coins are ever so slightly thicker, and just a smidge smaller in diameter than the 1 Pfennig coins.

 

This one will be hard to beat.

 

I think yours comes in at 11.3mm

It certainly weighs less.

Guatemala - 1/4 Real - 1896

KM#162, 0.0770g, 0.8350ag, 0.0206oz

 

I don't have a picture of my personal coin, but I am using one I found on the internet.
The coin is in a 2x2. Gotta put it in the batch to go with the rest for next week.

 

Ar 0.249g, 6.7mm

Elea Aeolis, AR Hemiobol. Late 5th century BC. Head of Athena left, in crested helmet / E L A I, around olive wreath, all within incuse square.

Tarsus (?), Cilicia 4th c. BC , AR obol .50g almost 11mm

Baal seated left holding a scepter in his left hand, grapes and corn ears in his right.

Forepart of a wolf right, crescent to upper left

 

Wow! That is small.

 

here it is on a 40mm coin.


Wana see tiny coins?
http://dougsmith.ancients.info/tiny.html

 

I think about 1/4 inch or more than 3/18 it is a plastic.. smaller than normar button of shirt..the color is grey with an image of LAPU LAPU the one who killed Ferdinand magellan who discover Philippines in 1521.

 

This is a chuckram from Travancore (South India) 1860-1901 AD. It is silver and 6mm.

 

I love a good half dime.

 

Moesia, Istrus. - My smallest


Moesia, Istrus. 400 - 350 BC. Silver Hemiobol. 7.77mm, 0.42g. Two male heads facing, the right inverted. / Sea eagle flying lt., attacking a dolphin.

This is my smallest worth posting.

 

my smallest coin, by far, would be my 0.5g Canadian gold coin that I posted in the foreign acquisitions thread. It's an 11mm diameter coin.

Size comparison with the circulation Canadian quarter (4.4g, 23.81 mm diameter) it shares its design with:

 

Right now in my possesion i have a unknown small coin. It is roughly 9 mm, looks like is made of bronze, and has what appears to be malaysian caligraphy on one side. On the other side of the coin is a star with a symbol in it. i do not know if this is a real coin, so please comment to help me figure out.

 

We'll need a pic or scan for us to help you.

 

Must of had some inflation back then, this one looks like it's plastic. after some research it's aluminum.

 

I remember the Dutch "dubbeltje" from the pre-euro years; that had a diameter of 15 mm. Pretty big compared to some others posted here, but it was common then. The 1 pfennig coin that Blaubart mentioned was 16.5 mm; the 1 cent coin is 16.25 mm.

Also, several European countries currently issue "tiny gold coins". Guess the idea is to make collecting gold affordable. Well, here is the Irish "Book of Kells" €20 piece - diameter 11 mm.

Christian