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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I have an old edition of Krause which illustrates a
1/512 of a Mohar, otherwise known as a JAWA, it weighs .01 og a gramme.
I also remember noting this coin in an older edition of the
Guiness Book of Records.
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Valued Member
 United States
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Sounds cool anyone have pics of these little things?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's funny, today I uploaded some of my odd coins to photobucket and find this thread this evening... These are the smallest coins I have left, I used a LWC to compare the size of the gold fanams... I used an electronic gold tester and all these coins tested at 14KT... At one point in time I had over 100 of these and was selling them for ten to twelve dollars each when gold spot was under $400.00 a ounce...  |
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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I believe that dougsmith has, somewhere on his site, pictures of Greek fractional obols that were something like 3-4 mm in diameter and less than 1/10 of a gram in weight. Which is... well, tiny.  ...Coincidentally, anyone knows the size of a Californian fractional gold quarter? It might be well in the running as far as moderns are concerned. Also: Maundy penny. |
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Valued Member
United States
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Broken coins those are really bueatiful coins, where could I find some and for how much?
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Actually, I visited a dealer today and saw a reasonably small coin for sale:
A silver 1/20 of a Karshapana of ancient India, about 250 BC.
About 3mm in diameter, and weighing in at a minuscule .015 of a gramme.
Question: What is the smallest currently circulating coin?
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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Question: What is the smallest currently circulating coin? Well, if you accept "being used as currency in some places due to the EU economical crisis" as "currently circulating", there's the Spanish 1 peseta at 14 mm diameter (it's also aluminium so weighs well under a single gram - I wonder if it's the world's smallest aluminium coin, though even if it is I doubt anybody would care). No idea what otherwise (thought it would be the Scandinavian 10 ore pieces but apparently all three of them had since been demonetized). |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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This one is pretty small too... http://(131231) Not Allowed - Auto-Removed /countries/display.php?image=img13/138-1&desc=Panama%20km1%202.5%20Centesimos%20(1904)%20Panama%20Pill&query=Panama Steve  |
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Pillar of the Community
Norway
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I have a Norwegian coin which weighs 0,06 grams. It is not the smallest in terms of diameter, but it is wafer thin. It is more than 800 years old and to small for me to make a half-decent picture, I am afraid.
The smallest currently circulating coin would not have been a Scandinavian 10 øre, at least not recently, a Dutch 10 cents was smaller (and lasted longer). I am not sure what is smallest now. I will check my albums and see when I come home, perhaps I have a good candidate.
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Pillar of the Community
Russian Federation
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The smallest currently circulating coin would not have been a Scandinavian 10 øre, at least not recently, a Dutch 10 cents was smaller (and lasted longer). The Spanish 1 peseta was of course even smaller (ucoin.net lists it as 14 mm and the Dutch piece as 15), and lasted the same time (up until the adoption of the euro in 2002). As for still-circulating coins - I've checked all of my own albums, of course (incomplete as they are), but couldn't find anything that could realistically be still circulating (except for the peseta as stated above) smaller than our own Russian 1 copeck at 15.5 mm (this relatively tiny coin, with a face value of about 0.03 US cents*, hadn't actually been minted since 2009, and shops almost always round to the closest 5 or even 10 copecks, but the coins are still in circulation and I was able to get a few from a local shop just the other day). *) Which almost certainly makes the 2009 copeck a record in another field - the least face value/purchasing power of a coin actually minted on purpose (well, a modern coin at least). And by "purchasing power", I mean that while it was theoretically possible to buy something with them, you literally needed pockets full of them to actually pull that off (as even a kilogram of those tiny coins was worth less than a US quarter). |
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I believe that dougsmith has, somewhere on his site, pictures of Greek fractional obols that were something like 3-4 mm in diameter and less than 1/10 of a gram in weight. Ye'll be wanting this page, then.  The smallest denomination recorded in the Greek system is the hemitartemorion, or 1/8th obol, weighing 0.09 grams - which equates to 1/48th of a drachm or 1/192nd of a tetradrachm. Or, to wrench it completely out of its proper historical context, not quite three "Widow's Mites", or enough silver to make a pre-1964 US silver coin with a face value of 0.36 US cents. I suspect these teensy tiny ancient silver coins are actually commoner than prices and current availability would indicate. The trouble is, these things are just too darned small - they can't be detected easily with a metal detector and they'll fall straight through an archaeologist's sieve. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Valued Member
United States
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Guys I love how yall found all the small coins but I was wondering whats the smallest gold and silver coin?
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Pillar of the Community
Norway
510 Posts |
Smallest gold coin would be the fanam you have already seen, unless a 1/48th stater from Lydia minted by Croisos is smaller. Smallest silver would be the fractional obols, if you go by diameter, or my Norwegian bracteat if you go by weight. As for current coins, it is easy. No country use silver or gold for circulating currency anymore, only commems.
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05/22/2012 09:34 am
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Valued Member
United States
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Thanks guys for the help I know a few cins t look for lol
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