https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces8257.html
the 51 gram 5 Kopek, only 2 coins minted in the Russian empire are larger: The novodel pattern 10 Kopek 1761 and the 10 Kopek minted for use in Siberia.
And there is the size compare photo, including my smallest and largest banknotes.
Citation: "nthn"The Numista page for the Liberia coin says that you don't have it in your collection.
My collection is visible, so you can see for the moment only South Africa and the continents America and Oceania are already added to the Numista database. I still have to add around 80 % of my collection and doubles, including that Liberian coin.
Citation: "nthn"The Numista page for the Liberia coin says that you don't have it in your collection.
My collection is visible, so you can see for the moment only South Africa and the continents America and Oceania are already added to the Numista database. I still have to add around 80 % of my collection and doubles, including that Liberian coin.
I wait until the day you will enter 100% of your collection to Numista! Your collection is very nice! Good work over the years! Goed bezig
Citation: "druzhynets"I wait until the day you will enter 100% of your collection to Numista! Your collection is very nice! Good work over the years! Goed bezig
I'm afraid you (and what's much worse, me too) will have to wait for another many years before I'll finally succeed this. The adding goes very slowly. Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be better to focus on the adding first and stop being active on the forum and swapping etc., because reading every single topic on the forum costs a lot of time too. But the problem is, I'm so interested in everything concerning coins, I couldn't miss the forum.
Citation: "druzhynets"I wait until the day you will enter 100% of your collection to Numista! Your collection is very nice! Good work over the years! Goed bezig
I'm afraid you (and what's much worse, me too) will have to wait for another many years before I'll finally succeed this. The adding goes very slowly. Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be better to focus on the adding first and stop being active on the forum and swapping etc., because reading every single topic on the forum costs a lot of time too. But the problem is, I'm so interested in everything concerning coins, I couldn't miss the forum.
Perhaps the best option would be to add 'top priority' coins - those more expensive and rare or to add just one coin per type and then in the future 'grow' that type with other entries.
Far more interesting at the other end of the scale, I picked up several Cambodia 1847 1/8 Tical coins on my latest trip to St Pete. These are interesting little uniface coins struck in a wide variety of dies and sizes. According to the catalog the official size is 11mm but in reality the size varies from 14mm right down to 9mm, making it my smallest coin, at least until they are all sold / swapped.
And my largest is not a coin, but a piece of Exonumia; a 1953 Elizabeth II British coronation medal made of an unknown soft metal alloy, with a diameter of 48mm: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces53795.html
(My largest non-exonumia coin would probably be my Ottoman Altmislik at 45mm; followed by my Bavarian Conventionsthalers at 43mm.)
I didn't have a photo ready for my lightest and heaviest coins together, but those are both British; the lightest is a 1877 Maundy penny of Victoria's young head bust. The heaviest is a 1797 George III "Cartwheel" 2 pence, but my own Russian Catherine II 5 Kopeck coin might be a contender too.
Biggest one is a medal (Exonumia) with 69mm. I didn't add it on numista yet.
Smallest one is a late roman era minimissimi with 8mm (not on numista too).
Biggest coin is a swedish ore (47mm here) : https://fr.numista.com/catalogue/pieces130451.html
Largest - Papua New Guinea 10 Kina https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces42217.html On right
Size 45mm (3 times larger than the 5 kopecks)
Weight 41.6 grams (46 times as much as the Russian coin)
Silver Value - $30.41 NZD 8/2/19 (.925 fine - sterling)
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
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Silver coins were among the first coins ever used, thousands of years ago. The silver standard was used for centuries in many places of the world. And the use of silver for coins, instead of other materials, has many reasons.
N#42217 Contains $50.14 (!!!!) worth of silver, I paid $50 for the whole set last year.
UPDATE - Dec 2025 - Now $132.62 silver, so silver has increased 2.6 times since 2020
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Very interesting piece - plate money.
No dimensions listed apart from the weight of 3kgs. But it must be massive.....very impressed. Can you please post a photo of your plate money.
Very interesting piece - plate money.
No dimensions listed apart from the weight of 3kgs. But it must be massive.....very impressed. Can you please post a photo of your plate money.
Incredible! To give an idea of size, I found one on ebay that only weights 2.6 KGs but it's a very impressive 10x10 inches.
Very interesting piece - plate money.
No dimensions listed apart from the weight of 3kgs. But it must be massive.....very impressed. Can you please post a photo of your plate money.
Incredible! To give an idea of size, I found one on ebay that only weights 2.6 KGs but it's a very impressive 10x10 inches.
Awesome.
I wonder what the postage for that package will be!
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Hey guys, I was going through old threads today, and finally succumbed to the temptation to take a picture of something for you. It's big versus small and both also the first animals on coins.
Medals serve as a comparison -our famous biathlete ( she originally learned the craft of medal-making and so she returned to her profession)
Two bulls are wrestling with each other , size:6,57 mm .
I still don't have the guts to add coins after a bad experience -but this silver beauty one and the other they would deserve it .
Hello and I wish you a nice day without the troubles of this world's complicated times, it is evolution and nothing new in the history of mankind - just a subject for new coins.
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
Turkish Yuzlik - 45.4mm in size, 32.93 grams - Year 5 of Selim 3 - AH 1203 (+4 years) = 1207 as 1203 was year 1 = 1794AD
British Maundy Penny 10.9mm in size, weight 0.41 grams
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
The area is too worn to decipher a mint mark and the website linked is in Russian but all my translating tools aren’t reliably translating it so it’s almost unreadable.
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
The area is too worn to decipher a mint mark and the website linked is in Russian but all my translating tools aren’t reliably translating it so it’s almost unreadable.
Here they are together. Can you find the small one? 😉
Is that a bathroom tile Behind the coins?
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
I don't actually know what is the smallest/largest coin that I have and I understand this is an old topic. But I thought you might be interested in this coin size comparison tool we have created recently (https://sizegraf.com/tools/coin-size-comparison-tool/).
My smallest is the same, multiple Maundy pennies. Equal is the Panama Pill at 11mm and 2.5mm thick.
My largest is a 20 Balboas of Panama, the coin is 62mm in size and weighs 129.59 grams with 119.8 grams of silver in it. Thats over $400 in melt value now. I bought the whole 1978 set (2 more ounces of silver as well) for $375 last year.
The 20 Balboas is around 270 times larger than the Maundy penny.
The whole set shows you the size difference between 20 Balboas and the Panama pill next to it.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
On right
Two bulls are wrestling with each other , size:6,57 mm .
or this bee - Řecko (starověké) › Ionie › Ephesos 6,68 mm size
