Smallest US Coin

I know, the Lincoln Memorial Cent is not the smallest but if you look at the last photo, it is. That's the size of it. I blew the first two photos up just you could see it. It's copper but not only is it small, it's 3/16's of an inch actually.

 

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That is small is that an error

 

A planchette error

 

No

 

The rims were completed. Show a photo next to a regular one for comparison.
If it was a small planchet and struck, the rims would be missing or incomplete.
Someone damaged this after minting.
Most likely it sat in some acid and got smaller. Someone will know.

 

Y'all need to stop thinking this is an error. It's not. Look up "inflation money".

 

No, it's a novelty coin.

 

Could be a shrunken coin. A company called Stoneridge Engineering shrinks stuff.

 

First picture on google image search. From numista:

 

Been selling them since at least the mid 70's and I am fairly certain before that. You can find them at most coin shows. i cannot tell you how many thousands of the sets I have seen for sale over the years.

 

Wait it was part of a set?

 

Just a novelty.

 

Oh I didn't realize it was a toy/ fake coin.
Please disregard previous post.

 

I also had (have?) one of these sets. I bought it at Stuckey's decades ago, probably for $1.00. I think they are plastic?

I'm not sure if anyone will remember Stuckey's or not. They went away many years ago. But they sold novelty sets like this.

 

Collector's item. 8mm.

I think this should have been done in aluminium.