World's Smallest "Coin"

They did it! They created a coin in her majesty's honor.
Out of a sliver of a lab-grown diamond.
First thing that comes to mind is "WOW! Cool!" but then comes "Those cheap people" :devil:

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Lol, yeah I read that link I think from coinflation. Pretty interesting. It was basically a demonstration of the lab's prowess in making ultra small chips in lab grown diamonds.

One of these days it will be mere atoms across.

 

Now they have to fuse it to a 3 cent silver so
the fish scale fish can have a fish scale.

 

That thing has some serious rim damage. It would come back with "details" for sure!

 

I would just like to see a TPG grader grade it with a 5x loupe.

 

I do not consider it a coin, only a medal. IMHO
No visible denomination/date/nationality. Nope, not a coin.

 

i agree with it being a medal. but that nationality is clear... queen elizabeth ii... not great britain?? yeah canada and australia, you are british...

 

You bon't have to have those to be a coin. The early British hammered coins didn't have them.

That's not rim damage, it was "grown" without a collar and has an irregular edge like a cob coin.

 

Agree. The first coins did not have date or denomination stated. It had a symbol representative of a city. The only aspect of this I believe it may fail as a coin is I don't think there is a standard weight system in place that people could know what denomination this item is. It doesn't need to state the denomination on its face, but does need to be created according to a denomination system.

 

Ya, I was just making a joke man, Thanks though. :thumb:

 

Sorry I should have put a smiley at the end of mine as well. I knew it was a joke.

 

Fine, it doesn't qualify the standards to be a modern "coin" and it fails even by ancient "coin" standards as it has no government declared monetary value. At best it is still a medal, not a coin.

 

please show the "government declared monetary value" on any of the following coins...

 

Love your hammered coins, Swish. I find a lot of your remarks funny, and I agree with some of your arguments from both ends. Hence why the thread has the word "Coin" in quotation marks

 

thank you!

do i think that the "engineered diamond coin" is a coin? no. it's no more a coin than a liberian coins minted by the franklin mint. but the remark about "it fails by ancient standards" peeves me. ancient coins had no mark of value. most medieval coins had no mark of value. yeah, the late medieval/early modern ones did. modern coins could fall back to that standard, but i doubt they will.