Worlds Smallest Coin...?

zxcccxz...good idea..think I will measure mine and post my findings.

Mine seens to be 1/2 inch or 13mm..WOW..zxcccxz, can you even find it when you drop it..haha...3mm, seems awfully small..?

Well..my coin weighs 1.25 grams....guess mine is a heavy weight..haha.

You've asked two separate questions: "What is the world's smallest coin?" and "Does anyone have a smaller coin than this?".

The first question has been posted and answered numerous times on the forum before; check out the tiny coins in this old thread for example. The answer seems to be "3 to 4 mm", being the size of both the tiny gold quarter-fanams from India as well as the tiny silver hemitetartemorion (1/8th obol) from ancient Greece.

The second question has also been asked and answered before, in this old thread, for example. Not many people actually own the really tiny coins; their price is typically much higher than their larger counterparts. As I mentioned in one of the older threads, finding super-tiny ancient coins when they're buried in the ground is tricky because they're too small to be picked up by a metal detector.

I think we may have a winner (with those), these are all measuring 12-13mm.

The Netherlands doesn't seem to like large coins


The three in the upper left are from Iceland. same size as the smallest of the Netherlands ones, this next picture includes the smallest coins I have from Uruguay. left to right the piles are Iceland, Netherlands, and Uruguay. at the top is each type sitting on a dime.


Sorry about the lighting but it's just a size comparison. the smallest I have heard of might be the "1/4 JAWA of Nepal" not sure thou I had seen an auction or maybe just sale that claimed to have the worlds smallest gold coin, said it was 22k maybe even 24k. They showed a pile of them and they looked like a thick wire that had been cut down to tiny buttons smaller than a pea.

The smallest coin I actually have is probably a gold fanam.
They are reasonably easy to obtain, but watch out very good jewelry copies.
The gold fanam is ideal for this purpose.
I have some small doubt in fact, that mine IS genuine, but equally, I have so far been unable to prove that it is false.

Ive got a 6mm roman knocking about. Barbaric issue of Constantine, British tribe. Very rare to find them this small - UK soil melts them down and a lot of people wouldnever notice them - they are basically the colour of the soil, too.

Supposedly the gold "bele" of Vijayanagar is the smallest coin ever by diameter. It is almost certainly the smallest coin ever with its own name (as opposed to a fraction like 1/2 this or 1/4 that or 1/10 other). Not sure if that holds by weight, though (it weighs 0.048 grams, which is very close to the theoretical weight of the Greek silver onkia, and probably heavier than the Nepalese jawa).
The zeno.ru site has a picture. It doesn't actually look very small until you notice the scale
I've seen a few pages that claim the bele is the same thing as the 1/10 fanam. That could explain their similar sizes, and isn't impossible from a pure denomination-based standpoint (in fact brief Google searches seem to confirm that theory, though other links seem to say a bele would be 1/8 of a fanam, and I've encountered a few other fractions as well).

As for the tiniest coin in my collection, that would be a silver kopek of Peter the Great made in the year 1709. It is only 9 by 6 millimeters in size, and has an official weight of 0.28 grams (I have reasons to suspect that my example is actually even smaller, but I hadn't actually weighed it yet).