Post your largest and smallest coins together.

The ancient civilizations produced some honking huge coins, and some incredibly tiny coins. Let's see the stark contrast between the two.

I'll start:



Some scale:



Big Coin:
Xing Chao Tong Bao
Ming Rebels, Sun Kewang (1648-1657)
1 Fen
47mm and 18.2g

Small Coin:
Ban Liang
Western Han Dynasty
5mm and <0.1g (poor scale resolution. Shows up as 0.0g).

And, of course, my not-round coins:

 

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Ptolemy II bronze; 48 mm, 91.8 gm
Macedonia, unknown locale; AR 5; 0.26 gm

I do have one heavier struck coin (95 gm) but it is only 45 mm (Carthage 15-shekel)

 

Well my smallest is about .75 grain approx 1mm diameter gold from India a tribe in the 1300''s the Vijayanager Tribe the coin is called a Bele. This is a very blown up picture of the coin.
Then I'm not sure that this is my largest buts it's the biggest I have a photo of It's obviously the Chinese Panda 10 yen.

 

Gotta find mine...

 

There is my largest and smallest togheter:



Largest:

Roman Republic
Anonymous
Circa 280-276 BC. Æ Aes Grave As (70mm, 250.26 g)
Obv.: Head of beardless Janus on raised disk; I above
Rev.: Head of Mercury left, wearing winged petasos, on raised disk
Thurlow & Vecchi 1; Crawford 14/1

Smallest:

Ionia, Miletos
Circa 525-494 BC. AR Hemitetartemorion (4mm, 0.12g)
Obv.: Rosette.
Rev.: Five pellets within quatrefoil incuse.
SNG Tübingen 3018.

 

Largest: Catherine the Great, 5 kopek, 1766, 43 mm, approx. 50 grams.
Smallest: Peter the Great, wire coin kopek, Kadashev mint, 1703, 9x7 mm, 0.28 grams.

 

Curious, how much do graves like that usually go for?

 

Get out! Really? Damn!! I wonder if a TPG'er would slab that. They probably already have. I'd love to see that!

 

When I bought it couple years before I paid for It $1500

 

My Triens is 602 TIMES larger weight than my Tetartemorion!


Ionia, Kolophon, 6th-century BC
AR tetartemorion, 0.15g; 530-520 BC
Obv.: Archaic head of Apollo left.
Rev.: Incuse punch.
Reference: SNG Kayhan 343

Roman Republic
Anonymous issue
Aes Grave Triens , Libral Standard
46mm, 90.3g, (OH! and 9.3mm THICK!)
280-276 BCE
Rome Mint
Obv: Thunderbolt; •• •• across field.
Rev. Dolphin right; •••• below.
Ref: Crawford 14/3; Haeberlin pl. 39, 7-10. Thurlow & Vecchi 3; Sear 538

It is purported that Ancient Greeks sometimes carried their coins in their mouths...easily understood with a Tetartemorion... But WOW, think if a Roman did the same with an Aes Grave??? LOL

LOL, but @Valentinianvs blows us all away with 2093 times heavier with his coins!

 

It took me a while to find the time to take this image, but here it is at last.



BTW, the larger coin is 46.4g, 36mm while the smaller coin is .2g, 6mm

 

It's the best I could do, my friends...

=> Big & Small

 

Sure glad to see I'm not the only one with one of those tiny buggers. The history on those is interesting but you have to really hunt for it.

 

In the process of moving so this is all I can do at the moment.


Caria, Mylasa. Geta Æ38 - Aeolis, Aegae Æ8

 

my largest and smallest ancient....some fantastic photos here!

 

two smallest:
Ionian obol, bee/4 punch incuse, .58 grams
Widows mite, anchor / star, .5 grams
two largest:
aes grave as, Janus / ship's prow, 258 grams
ramo secco cast bar, 826 grams



for grins, my two cast bars side by side, left one is un-marked and weighs 746 grams, it is longer and thinner than the one on the right, both are about the same width.