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Valued Member
Australia
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Had given to me long ago and recently uncovered, a bit dilapidated 2x2 with writing ... TRAVANCORE Silver Fanam(?) and also "Smallest silver coin in the world". About 1cm diam (1/4 inch), coin is a bit oval-shaped and looks maybe Indian or that region. Any-one help me here? Can provide pics if needed. Cheers  Edited by Goodasgold
05/30/2006 07:52 am
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Not too sure if that is the world's smallest but I believe one of the world's smallest is those Indian 3mm gold 'bullet' coin (hard to believe isn't it?)
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Valued Member
 Australia
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Sure is hard to believe ... imagine carry-ing entire life savings around in your mouth, maybe!
Checked out your (partial) Coin collection - very impressive, I must say!
Cheers
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New Member
United States
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I believe that the smallest coin is the 1 Dam from Nepal.
It is about 3 1/2 to 4 mm in diameter, and can also be found clipped in 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 and one collector told me 1/16, but I don't believe it... that would be one itty bitty piece of silver ... errr would it be sliver at that point?
I have an example of a full Dam in my collection - the 4 character variety... it looks roughly the size of a Fanam, but when I held up one to the other, the Dam was smaller.
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Valued Member
Australia
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Okay, please stand by while set up video camera; don't have/need still camera (capture into program - freeze frame - save as .jpg Back soon after wash car, paint house, mow lawn, feed dog, pay bills and groom horse....  |
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The Ancient Greek city-states, particularly central Greece itself, produced some very small silver coins in the 300's BC. The smallest in the Sear catalogue is the hemitartemorion, 1/8th of an obol or 1/48th of a drachm, issued by Athens. The picture in Sear is 4mm across.
It's amazing that, even on a coin that small, you can still make out the head of Athena on one side and the Athenial Owl on the other. How the ancient die-makers managed to carve that much detail on such a small die, without modern technological aids (like a magnifying glass!) is still debated.
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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Australia
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Valued Member
United States
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No! I have the smallest coin in the world! It's a gold coin from India.
2 to 3 mm
.05 grams
www.joelscoins.com/catindex3.htm
This link will take you to the index. Just start scrolling down. It's the first coin you come to for India. Also, do yourself a big, enjoyable favor. Just poke around his site. It's a blast looking at the coins he has there for sale. He's got all the fun stuff from all over the world.
Jerry
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Australia
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quote:
Originally posted by Goodasgold
Sure is hard to believe ... imagine carry-ing entire life savings around in your mouth, maybe!
Checked out your (partial) Coin collection - very impressive, I must say!
Cheers
Thank you - I still have a lot more to go on that... Twentycent - that is the "coin" that I was talking about. My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseriesMy numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htmRegularly updated at least once a month. |
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United States
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gxseries, I kind of thought so but the "bullet" part threw me. They are really neat. Each one has it's own design on it! At ANA last year I showed one to David Hall (PCGS) to see if they would grade it. He showed it to one of the world coin graders and he said...sorry no, but waaaaaaaay cool! Jerry |
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Australia
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Hahaha nice one Jerry. Appearently India has been making more discoveries, but there seems to be newer record of the smallest coin being 2-3mm or something!
I can't really call that coin!
My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseriesMy numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htmRegularly updated at least once a month. |
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United States
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I wonder how many of these tiny things are spread across India. You know, some had to be spilled onto the ground in bazaars and such. I could stay on Joel Anderson's site all day.
Jerry
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United Kingdom
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What about the latest peseta on circulation, just before the introduction of the Euro, was really tiny and worthless, 1.3 cm diameter (image enlarged, of course):  |
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