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Just recently I picked up a BU full set of Palau Dealer Button $1 coins for less than 1/4 of their Krause value. Super exciting, I know. But these things are massive, 50mm by my measure! Needless to say, these coins won't fit in my standard 2x2 flips (each coin itself being nearly 2" wide). http://www.numiscollect.eu/plaatjes...pokerset.jpgSo I wonder, what is your largest coin, and how do you personally handle these massive things? Edited by BobAlmighty125
07/12/2013 10:02 pm
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There are 2.5 x 2.5 flips
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Valued Member
 United States
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All of the 2.5" flips I find only have a 41mm window.
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United States
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United States
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My bad: I use the paperboard flips that get stapled. Are those not also called coin flips? (pardon my green-ness)
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United States
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The paperboards are conventionally called 2x2s, although they also come in 1.5x1.5 & 2.5x2.5 sizes. The plastic two-pocket fold-over envelopes are usually termed flips.
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United States
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And I guess my biggest coins are the 1971 & 1973 Bahamas $5, at 42.1 g, followed by the France 50 F 1974 & the Mexican $5 of 1948, both 30 g.
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New Member
United States
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1970 Panama 5 balboa and a 200 cash Chinese coin on which I use 2.5 inch plastic flips
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Australia
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The largest coin I have SEEN is the one tonne solid gold million dollar coin on display at the Perth Mint. It is about a metre in diameter, and about 12 cm thick. You can touch it, and it IS for sale. I think my trousers would fall down if I put THAT coin in my pocket! |
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United States
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Not the biggest in other measures, but I have an oval Tempo 100 cash (Japan) which is certainly outsize in the length dimension.
I admit, I keep thiking about going up to Sudbury (I've been in Ontario twice in the past year!) to see the Big Nickel, but haven't made it yet.
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Thailand
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Great Britain km618 1 Penny (1797) at 36mm and popularly known as the 'cartwheel penny'.
The same company issued a 'cartwheel twopenny' at 41mm! But I don't have one of those.
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Australia
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I think it's a US silver dollar, which thankfully fits in a 2x2 saflip.
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Australia
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A general rule for my colelction is, "if it doesn;t fit in a 2x2, I don't really want it". It helps give me a reason to filter out Katanga crosses, manilla rings, tiger-tongues, Chinese spade-coins, Thai bullet money and other "primitive" proto-coins. However, I have picked up a few NCLT maxsi-crowns here and there. I believe my largest is the 2 pa'anga coin from Tonga, 44.5mm. My maxi-crowns either go into 2.5x2.5s if they fit, or into a coin album page designed for medals. Only just slightly smaller at average 42mm is my largest circulating coin, a multiple-dirham from the Samanid dynasty of Afghanistan, circa AD 980; you can see pics of it in a thread on this same topic in the Ancients section. Being thinner than a modern coin, it just fits into a 2x2-sized flip. 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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Canada
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My largest coin is probably... the humble Eisenhower dollar. :I But, I would like to get one of those multiple thalers (double, triple, etc.) one day. |
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Germany
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I have an old British copper 2p, when the amount of copper was worth 2p, very big.
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