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United States
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For the sake of this thread, "tiny" will be anything smaller than a US dime. As long as it is smaller than a US dime, it counts. I'll start off with a silver Three Cent piece. They used to call these :fish scales" because they are so small...   Show us your tiny coins! |
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United States
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At 5mm, I think this coin counts.   |
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United States
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For scale, I have a dime behind this 1956 Pakistani 1 pie. Measures 1.6 cm, 1.30 grams. I just noticed... are those die clashes on obverse and reverse?  |
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United States
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"Tiny" enough?   |
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United States
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Cascade, is that a normal 2x2?
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Russian Federation
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Back before fish scales were US Three Cent pieces, the same name applied to Russian wire money...   This is a silver wire denga of Ivan IV, Grand Prince of Moscow, famously known as Ivan the Terrible (and less famously, but just as correctly, as Ivan the Awesome). This particular issue must have been made in the early part of his reign, before his declaration of the Tsardom of Russia in 1547. I can't actually recall what the diameter of that coin is, or whether I even still have it (the photos were made way back in January 2013). But the weight is 0.34 grams, which IMHO is more than enough (um, less than enough?) to classify it as "tiny". |
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United States
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A "tiny" New Mexico tax token, 16 mm diameter and 0.53 g in weight.  These tokens were the means to collect the first state sales taxes in the US. This one was worth one mill (one tenth of a cent), so could be exchanged to make up the "tiny" tax on small purchases. |
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New Zealand
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My smallest 3 1848 Model 1/2 penny 8.5mm ---weight .37gm Note re-punched 1   1848 Model 1/16th farthing7mm --weight .23gm   1848 Model 1/8th farthing 8.5mm ---weight .37gm   Cheers Don
Vickies cents and GB Farthings nut.
"Old" is a figure of speech and nothing more
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03/26/2016 11:10 pm
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United States
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Mexico's last year of the 1 centavo coin 13 mm and 1.5g - Brass (About the same size as a T1 Gold Dollar)   |
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United States
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Cascade, is that a normal 2x2? Yup |
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Canada
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This is the smallest I could find. A Netherlands Antilles 1971 10 cent   Edited by Crjenkins
03/26/2016 11:42 pm
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United States
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This thread wouldn't be complete without a US gold dollar. Unites States -- 1853 gold dollar:   |
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 United States
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Very interesting thread.  |
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United States
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Here's my smallest, 15 mm and 1.42 g, a Netherlands silver 10c from 1934 (KM#163). Features Wilhelmina, queen of the kingdom for nearly 58 years.  Edited by NoPoMoCo
03/27/2016 08:13 am
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United States
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@fourmack Those are very interesting, considering how easy they would be to lose. Was there a need for such a small denomination? I like them.  |
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Slovenia
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At 1,5 mm this is the smallest coin I own. It was given to me by a father's friend when I was a child.  |
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