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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;swhuck, post: 1002104, member: 21044&quot;]The fanam mentioned earlier was the first thing that came to mind as the smallest. The Panama Pill is another impressively small coin which is very appropriately nicknamed if you&#039;ve ever seen one. It&#039;s a silver coin with a face value of 2.5 cents; just imagine a half-half dime. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Widow&#039;s mites are small, but there are plenty of coins just as small.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As for the biggest, well, the Yap Stone money didn&#039;t exactly circulate in ways that we&#039;d be familiar with. Title to the money changed hands, but the money itself often didn&#039;t go anywhere for reasons that would become almost as obvious as your hernia if you tried to pick it up. I don&#039;t think it would actually be considered a coin by most definitions.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My vote, without doing any particular research on the subject, would be for Swedish Plate Money. Consider a rectangular 18th century copper coin with a face value of 10 dollars, or in this case dalers... which contained its face value worth of copper. These things came in various denominations dropping as low as a half daler, which is still an awfully large chunk of copper. Sweden made plate money because they had no silver but tons of copper, and the plates did circulate. But they proved unpopular (wonder why? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) and were literally used as ballast when Sweden was able to get more silver. Most pieces known today are sea salvaged -- appropriate when you consider that they were used as ballast. Swedish plate money is dated and listed in the appropriate volumes of Krause.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There are also some very large oblong Japanese coins, as well as some impressive multiple Talers. Realistically, anything larger than a crown-sized piece is big enough to make people take notice.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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