Show me your tiny coins!

We all love those big massive coins, but little coins deserve love too. For this thread, show us the smallest coin in your collection. If you can get a dime or another familiar coin for scale, please feel free to do so.

Anyway, I've been amassing a few ancient Greek fractional coins....the ancient Greeks loved them tiny coins a lot. Today I received my smallest yet. Enjoy!


CARIA, Mylasa 450-400 BCE
AR hemiobol, 7.9mm , 0.6 gm
Obv: facing forepart of lion
Rev: scorpion within incuse square
Ref: SNG von Aulock 7803

And for reference, she sure does make a nice pair of studio earphones for FDR.


Let's see your tiny coins. Share them if you have them!

 

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1824 British maundy silver 1 pence. 11mm. I had trouble with capturing the reflective surfaces.

 

Gold Fanam of India. The dealer told me it was 200-300 years old. Any input on this particular example would interest me.

 

Believe it or not, my OP coin is not as small as ancient Greek fractional silver coins get. I've been hunting for the truly small ones now...5mm in size, or around the size of a grain of rice.

The description for your coin is:

India. Tanjore. Anonymous AV Getti Fanam
Attribution: Mitchener SI.781
Date: 1674-1799 AD
Obverse: Dagger
Reverse: Heart-shaped design of pellets

It is a pretty small gold coin, but I've seen some Indian fractional gold coins that get as tiny as 4mm, which is downright ridiculously small and probably as tiny as coins get...period. I think ancient Greeks only got down to 5mm.

 

1893 Double 9, Canadian Nickel .
Diameter 15.5 mm .

 

1904 Panama Pill 10mm

 

Similar to the last post, this 1975 Panama 2 1/2 centesimos is shown in a dime sized 2x2.

 

I was going to post mine. Smallest coin ever minted by the US mint.

 

This tiny gold coin is possibly the smallest modern machine-struck coin ever made.



Guatemala 4 Reales 1860
Obverse: Rafael Carrera facing right / RAFAEL CARRERA P. DE LA R. DE GUATEMALA
Reverse: Wreath / 4 REALES 1860 / 21 Q R
Gold, 9mm, 0.83gm, 0.875 fine

More information:
http://www.cointalk.com/threads/guatemala-gold-four-reales-1860-a-tiny-9mm-coin.282235

 

Here is my tiny coin
I have the coin but don't have a picture of just the coin.

 

That type coin, mine is similar, is the first gold coin I was able to purchase. I still have it.

 

Here is a James I hammered half penny, dating probably closer to the end of his 1603 to 1625 reign. This one measures about 10mm on its widest extent. I've seen snowflakes larger than this minuscule thing. I have no idea how people kept track of them or used them in commerce. They can blow right out of your hand. In any case, they are fascinating little things. They also appeared in the reigns of Edward VI, Elizabeth I, Charles I and the Commonwealth. Even smaller farthings were minted, which seem unimaginable, but I've never actually held one.

 

Oldest & Smallest!

5.8mm (0.4g)

Iona-Phokaia, c 550 B.C.E., AR Tritartemorion
Obv: Hd of Griffin R. Rev: Incuse Square Quartered

NGC was unable to encapsulate!

 

Wow,now those are some small coins alright! It was a toss up, between a trime, half dime, Belgian 2 cent or this 1 centesimo. Bet there,s alot of those tiny coins in the ground, that were lost!

 

What kind of coin is this could anyone please identify it i found it in a roll of pennies not sure but i believe it might be constans but but familiar at all