Bought the smallest coin in my collection today

Bought the smallest coin in my collection today. A 1976 Panama 2 1/2 centesimos proof. Just thought I’d share.

 

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Panama coins are tiny..
The 1904 is called the Panama Pill

 

At just 10mm. you have to wonder how people kept track of them. At least it was light in the pocket! LOL!

 

Very nice! I have a Panama pill somewhere but I can't find it for the life of me.

Now you need to get an even smaller coin!

 

That is beautiful! It still amazes me that they were able to make such detailed designs by hand.

 

I don't recall ever reading anything about it but it's possible I suppose. It makes me wonder, where would we be as humanity if we hadn't had the Dark Ages. The Greeks and Romans etc...were so advanced such a long time ago. It amazes me.

 

I wonder if they make coin capsules that small.

 

Here are a few I am planning to sell that I found in a collection I bought recently. I had seen the gold fanams before but not the silver versions. These little coins are really quite fascinating to me. I love having something in the picture as a reference for size to really put it in perspective.

 

Or maybe they just hired people who were really nearsighted as engravers. If I peer under my glasses, it's almost as good as a loupe -- and I'm not that nearsighted (around -4 diopters).

 

Archimedes came this close to developing integral calculus, almost 2000 years ahead of Newton. If we could've knocked over the stupid Roman soldier who killed him, who knows what he could've accomplished with additional years? And then if we could have preserved that knowledge, and passed it along to the Arabic scholars who were advancing mathematics while Europe stagnated, and maybe tied in Chinese rockets, instead of trying to convert one another at swordpoint -- who knows? Maybe the earlier societies of Africa the Americas could have developed without interference, while Europe colonized planets rather than continents.

 

Like many of the Franklin Mint issues of that period, the matte coins of that type were minted in quantities much higher than the number of matte sets sold, and it's likely that the extras were sent to banks and issued for circulation. That said, I doubt they truly circulated and I don't require them for my date sets. It's a gray area and up to the individual collector to decide how they feel about it.

 

that is impressive and over my budget

 

just what the world would need is those little Roman despots with the lead poising throwing about nuclear missles... I'll pass

 

Can't find the coin to weigh it. 1/3 Pavali
minted by,
Sriman Rajadhiraja Raja Parameshvara Praudha-pratapa Apratima-vira Narapati Birud-antembara-ganda Maharaja Sri Krishnaraja Wadiyar III Bahadur.
It weighs under a gram. and about a third the size of a dime.