I used to have Panama pill coin a long time ago but ended up trading it before I got a Panama book. Now I need it back and it seems very hard to get, and a lot more expensive than when I got rid of it.
Yes I had one when I first started collecting coins and didn't realize its significance until much later; plus I got a Dansco Panama book I've been trying to fill up for years now. Hopefully I'll be able to fill it one day but it has a lot of expensive rare coins in it that are kind of hard to obtain.
It'll be VII, VIII only had very limited coins released in the colonies, no coinage for Britain was struck for him other than alleged proofs (although I know they were minted for Malta or Ceylon)
Just did a search for the smallest modern coin, is this info correct? I don't see how you would be able to find this coin in your change or efficiently use it? https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces15770.html
Citation: CeruleanUK silver 1.5 pence coin from 1843, 14mm diameter. I'm amazed that technology 170 years ago was able to put such fine details on such a small coin.
Cerulean, I'd love to see a picture of your three halfpence if you get a chance to put it up. Thanks, Rick
Just because you can't see it ... doesn't mean it isn't there - Anon.
Citation: CeruleanUK silver 1.5 pence coin from 1843, 14mm diameter. I'm amazed that technology 170 years ago was able to put such fine details on such a small coin.
I've seen a TV show where the Romanian mint were producing a 100,000 Lei 1946 silver coin, and it was filmed in recent years...that was weird...
Not my holed one its spoiled still tis a gap filler as it was struck for colonial use I will move it from where it is to another colony where it circulated when I get a better example !
Citation: udovMy smallest coin is a 1/10 GOLD FANAM from 11-13th Century INDIA. The coin is 1.6 mm across
Can we have a unit check please - if it is really 1.6mm it's got to be the smallest coin in the world!
My smallest coin has to be this Ottoman Empire Silver Para from 1842: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces36569.html
At only 12.6mm and a quarter of a gram it was quite hard to get it into it's holder
Just because you can't see it ... doesn't mean it isn't there - Anon.
I think mines is a Dutch 5 cents coin from 1850, with a picture of king Willem III on it.
My second smallest coin would be a Spanish 1 peseta coin, dated from 1989-2001.
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
I can't believe there is such a small coin???? less than 1 mm??? please someone let us know the real size.
Just 10 options: you understand binary, or you don't.
Catalog Referee Coins, Banknotes & Exonumia: Uruguay, Cuba, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Panama, Ecuador, Zamunda, Parva Domus and more.
CitationThe war situation had worsened to the point that shipping the coins became virtually impossible. Consequently, none of these coins were issued in the East Indies and almost the entire issue was lost or were remelted at the mint.
So you think that the coin from the second link is the smallest coin you have ever seen? I think that's a bit odd, as the coin in your first link is particulary smaller!
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
Citation: Lotus07So you think that the coin from the second link is the smallest coin you have ever seen? I think that's a bit odd, as the coin in your first link is particulary smaller!
I collect coins and tokens which circulated in Africa from 18th century to 2000. I sell about 7000 illustrated world coins from http://www.avscoins.com.
For some reason you don't bother entering this coin into your collection list--it still has rarity index 100.
My main type collection is rather big: it currently represents about 87% of what circulated in Africa in 18th-20th centuries, including coinage of colonial powers (without gold). Since most of my collection is not scanned, entering it into the database is too much work, for which I don't have time yet. I enter only relatively inexpensive coins I have for exchange. The more expensive coins, including this Fanam, I sell from my website, mentioned in the signature. Thus I obtain funds for purchases for my collection, since nobody offers for exchange coins worth a hundred Euro or more, and that's what I am usually after .
I collect coins and tokens which circulated in Africa from 18th century to 2000. I sell about 7000 illustrated world coins from http://www.avscoins.com.
Definitely the 1902 Maundy silver penny. 11mm and .5 grams of good old sterling silver. Smallest coin of that level of precious metal that I've ever seen.
I collect coins and tokens which circulated in Africa from 18th century to 2000. I sell about 7000 illustrated world coins from http://www.avscoins.com.
Well, my smallest coin is actually a Netherlands 10 cents coin, minted from 1982-2001 from the mini mint set.
The mini mintset was made from 1998-2002 and in the 2002 set there were eurocoins instead of guldencoins. In the mini mint set you find every circulating Dutch guldencoin, but all the coins have the diameter of half of the normal diameter of those coins.
For example, a 1 Gulden coin has a diameter of around 25 a 26 mm, but in the set you'll find a gulden coin of about 13 mm. That makes a 10 cents coin have a diameter of just 7.5 mm!
The Royal Dutch Mint had quite a lot of problems for the set with the eurocoins with the European Bank, as they haven't specified that the coins in the set were not a legal tender. So they stopped making those sets because they were illegal to the E.B.
So the are officially tokens, but it isn't clear for me to see on the set where it has been marked, so I'm not really sure about it.
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
This is my smallest coin. It is pretty tiny although it is obviously quite worn.
Rick,
Your coin is not only worn, it's obverse is struck off-center, which for collectors of errors might be a plus. Pity that on reverse (at the top) the regnal year is not visible. But the mint is well visible. It's Qustantiniya (current Istanbul).
I collect coins and tokens which circulated in Africa from 18th century to 2000. I sell about 7000 illustrated world coins from http://www.avscoins.com.
This is my smallest coin. It is pretty tiny although it is obviously quite worn.
Rick,
Your coin is not only worn, it's obverse is struck off-center, which for collectors of errors might be a plus. Pity that on reverse (at the top) the regnal year is not visible. But the mint is well visible. It's Qustantiniya (current Istanbul).
Hi Andrey, thanks for the feedback about my coin. Although it is not that pretty, it is quite special to me because it was one of half a dozen that I bought from an antique dealer in the Grand Bazaar last year.
Just because you can't see it ... doesn't mean it isn't there - Anon.
I'm not sure it counts as a "coin" as such but it's a small 1g gold-plated pure-silver coin with the Walking Liberty design on it. It's very small (8mm maybe?)
Citation: oldvesMy smallest is probably 1 Peseta (Juan Carlos I) - 14mm. I have probably never seen smaller coin.
Agreed - I always thought the Portugal 10 Centavos was small, then I got the smaller Spain 1 Peseta. Today I saw I had two smaller coins - not sure if they are mint trial coins though or play money ...
12.5mm UK Queen Victoria 1887 Half Sovereign - imitation of
10.5mm UK Queen Victoria 1848 One Penny - model
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I like it the better, as I found it myself :)
I've always wondered why the older coins from the Netherlands have an (s) for more than 1 cent -- however, the coins after say 1860 (not exact date) will say 5 Cent etc. etc. It kind of drives me crazy. For example see: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces4414.html On the coin there isn't an "s" and yet the Numista description has the s.
Any idea why the "newer" Netherland coins don't have the "s" and the older ones do?
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still tis a gap filler as it was struck for colonial use I will move it from where it is to another colony where it circulated when I get a better example ! 
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