Is this the Smallest Gold Coin In The World at less than 2 mm

It looks very thin, like a strong gust would blow it away.

 

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Yeah, that it would. "I'll take your biggest bottle of palm wine please, here ya go...aaaCHOO. Oh f....!"

 

I don't collect ancients but do find them fascinating. In the era of that coin, what value did it have, in other words could a guy buy a bushel of wheat with it or a slice of bread?

 

This coin isn't ancient, and unlike so many ancients we actually have a comprehensive and accurate report of its buying power from Francis Buchanan's A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore, Canara and Malabar...

Prices
Buffalo (female): 36-72 fanams
Ox: 25-30 fanams
Cow: 20-25 fanams
Sheep: 1-1 1/4 fanams

The prices given below are per bushel (1 bushel=36.37 litres)
Rice (best quality): 9 1/2
Wheat: 8 1/4
Salt (of Madras): 3 4/5

The prices given below are per cwt (1 cwt=45.36 kg)
Dates (1st quality): 43 2/5
Sugar (of Madras): 86 4/5
Honey: 26 1/16
Ghee (clarified butter): 83 1/4
Saffron (from Kashmir): 10425
Nutmeg: 868
Black pepper: 73 3/4
Opium: 1390
Indigo (1st quality): 434
Raw silk (white China): 2172
Lead: 43 2/5
Copper: 217