Trouble identifying small dollar coin

I have what looks like a tiny 1889 barber dollar, but I cant find any info on it. Is it a real coin, a sample? Any info would help.

 

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Pic of coin in question

 

What does the other side look like?

 

Maybe its a shrunk coin. What is its thickness and weight?

 

Sorry, perhaps a morgan dollar. the front and back match the regular sized one. It is as this as it is small. The details on the reverse are not that great, much more worn than the head side, but it has the eagle

 

It's not a real coin. It's a novelty piece.

 

+1

 

When you wash them in hot water, then leave them in the dryer too long, they tend to shrink.

 

How and for what purpose?

 

Novelty reasons, and Australias bills shrink when cooked (plastic) but no one does it because bills are worth their size there, not there number

 

Because they can, and because some people like big bangs.

http://blog.makezine.com/2009/06/17/coin-shrinking-with-high-voltage-in/

http://205.243.100.155/frames/shrinkergallery.html

 

It should be in the next installment of Make Magazine.

 

Did anyone notice the novelty piece has 14 stars.

 

I see 13 Michael.

 

I must have counted those three or four times, and every time I counted that E as a star.

 

Play money.