Itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, tiny AND colossal, magnitudinous, or formidable COINS

[woody50]

Decided after reading the Todays Finds "tiny coin" from Mikewaz to show some of my small coins that I have found. Not to brag, but just to show how small some of the coins are. I am also not professing that these are the smallest either, there surely are smaller, although...... Even the smallest, the small 7.5mm roman has a face and text on one side and an animal on the other, and it is not a clipped coin. I have found a few of these, but they are scarce and very difficult to find, the signal sounds like nothing, and once you have it in the sand or dirt its a pain to find. Once after finding one of the smallest I guess I lost it myself because I didn't have it when I cleaned the finds, or its still in a corner of my finds bag after all these years...!

I guess we can all realize how these coins could have been lost, they just fall through your fingers.

The coin #13 was called a duppie here in Holland. Until the Euro in 2001 this was just a normal coin you had in your pocket (you hope). It could fall through the smallest of holes and was difficult to pay with. Holland had its share of small coins for sure.

The coin #14 is a coin in South Africa that is in circulation at this moment.

Anyone else have some small or enormous ones? It would be nice to see, please post them!

mm inch mass
1 )[/TD]
[TD]07.5mm[/TD]
[TD]0.295"[/TD]
[TD]0.24g[/TD]
[TD]Bronze Roman Mini[/TD]
[/TR][TR]
[TD]2 )[/TD]
[TD]09.0mm[/TD]
[TD]0.350"[/TD]
[TD]0.58g[/TD]
[TD]Bronze Roman Mini[/TD]
[/TR][TR]
[TD]3 )[/TD]
[TD]09.5mm[/TD]
[TD]0.370"[/TD]
[TD]0.66g[/TD]
[TD]Bronze Roman Mini[/TD]
[/TR][TR]
[TD]4 )[/TD]
[TD]10.6mm[/TD]
[TD]0.417"[/TD]
[TD]0.38g[/TD]
[TD]Silver Hongary Denier (1131-1141)[/TD]
[/TR][TR]
[TD]5 )[/TD]
[TD]11.8mm[/TD]
[TD]0.460"[/TD]
[TD]1.02g[/TD]
[TD]Bronze Roman[/TD]
[/TR][TR]
[TD]6 )[/TD]
[TD]12.0mm[/TD]
[TD]0.470"[/TD]
[TD]0.22g[/TD]
[TD]Silver Scotland Farthing[/TD]
[/TR][TR]
[TD]7 )[/TD]
[TD]12.2mm[/TD]
[TD]0.480"[/TD]
[TD]0.96g[/TD]
[TD]Bronze Roman[/TD]
[/TR][TR]
[TD]8 )[/TD]
[TD]12.3mm[/TD]
[TD]0.480"[/TD]
[TD]0.89g[/TD]
[TD]Bronze Roman[/TD]
[/TR][TR]
[TD]9 )[/TD]
[TD]12.8mm[/TD]
[TD]0.500"[/TD]
[TD]1.07g[/TD]
[TD]Bronze Roman[/TD]
[/TR][TR]
[TD]10 )[/TD]
[TD]13.6mm[/TD]
[TD]0.530"[/TD]
[TD]0.64g[/TD]
[TD]Silver Netherlands Willem II 5 cent[/TD]
[/TR][TR]
[TD]11 )[/TD]
[TD]13.9mm[/TD]
[TD]0.550"[/TD]
[TD]0.54g[/TD]
[TD]Bronze Byzantine[/TD]
[/TR][TR]
[TD]12 )[/TD]
[TD]14.0mm[/TD]
[TD]0.550"[/TD]
[TD]1.25g[/TD]
[TD]Copper Netherlands Willem 1/2 cent (1931)[/TD]
[/TR][TR]
[TD]13 )[/TD]
[TD]15.0mm[/TD]
[TD]0.590"[/TD]
[TD]1.51g[/TD]
[TD]Nickel Netherlands Juliana 10 cent (1951)[/TD]
[/TR][TR]
[TD]14 )[/TD]
[TD]16.0mm[/TD]
[TD]0.630"[/TD]
[TD]1.99g[/TD]
[TD]Bronze South Africa 10 cent (1996)
[/TR]

 

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[digman]

Re: Tiny, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty and minimum Coins...

You have a fantastic collection,
Thanks for sharing it with us,

all the best
Didman

 

[seger98]

Re: Tiny, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty and minimum Coins...

I can see where they could easily be lost, nice colection!

 

[woody50]

Re: Tiny, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty and minimum Coins...

I can see where they could easily be lost, nice colection!

Thanks, its not really a collection, I just pulled a few small coins out of the boxes. Yea I did have or do have 3x of the really small ones, but don't know where the other two are!

 

[greg23]

Re: Tiny, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty and minimum Coins...

Those are smaller than the early Canadian 5 cent pieces I find here!!!.Nice finds!


HH

Greg

 

[Digger]

Re: Tiny, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty and minimum Coins...

That is some tiny coins. I find lots of tiny targets but not coins. Here is a pictures of the tiny stuff I found on one hunt with my DFX. I was able to put 4 of them on one US dime.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Re: Tiny, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty and minimum Coins...

This is a Very Cool thread.

 

[woody50]

Re: Tiny, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty and minimum Coins...

That is some tiny coins. I find lots of tiny targets but not coins. Here is a pictures of the tiny stuff I found on one hunt with my DFX. I was able to put 4 of them on one US dime.

Wow those are tiny 'relics' for sure! Wow again!

 

[Silver Searcher]

Re: Tiny, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty and minimum Coins...

A couple of mine, Charles1 1625-49 Silver Half Penny Rose, Eanred Saxon King 810-841 Bronze Styca (ps the 2008 coin is a Penny)

 

[shaun7]

Re: Tiny, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty and minimum Coins...

can i get my big one out yet?

 

[woody50]

Re: Tiny, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty and minimum Coins...

can i get my big one out yet?

Well Shaun I won't ask which big one you are talking about, but I have changed the title of this to include BIG COINS!
So I was talking about the big coins. I don't have many real big ones but shall lookup the biggest and put it here...
But about coins then, let me see it...

 

[woody50]

Here is my smallest and largest coin. I have included a coin also for reference.
I hope some of you will us see your large and tiny coins also.

I believe that a definition of the largest/smallest coins must be limited to

-normally produced coins by the government mint(s)
-circulated within the general public and USED as coins.
-not special purpose coins
-not gold coins, because although some were in circulation they were/are not used by the general public
Lets see yours!

small coin = 7.5mm or 0.295" weighs 0.24g is a Roman Mini Bronze coin
large coin = 42,2mm or 2 1/8" weighs 29.8g is a Netherlands 3 gulden silver coin from 1714

 

[mikewaz]

Re: Itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, tiny AND colossal, magnitudinous, or formidable COIN

Wow... and here I thought mine (the coin) was small.

Those are some tough to get finds. I've put a 3 cent silver on my wish list for this year, and hopefully I'll be able to add one to this post down the road.

Mike

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Great stuff, and real cool way of presenting them. kudos.

 

[romeo-1]

My biggest and smallest found silvers. 8 reale and Canada 5 cent.

 

[Damon64]

Those are awesome.

 

[Narthoniel]

Here is my biggest and smallest. I nicknamed them David and Goliath. Oddly enough, I dug them both on the same day(as well as a Large Cent and a Half Reale). The big one is a George IV Penny from 1825 or 1826, the small one is an 1853 3 cent piece. 33 mm for Goliath and 14mm for David. When I saw the penny in the hole, my initial reaction was, "What the hell is that?!?"
Anthony

 

[woody50]

Here is my biggest and smallest. I nicknamed them David and Goliath. Oddly enough, I dug them both on the same day(as well as a Large Cent and a Half Reale). The big one is a George IV Penny from 1825 or 1826, the small one is an 1853 3 cent piece. 33 mm for Goliath and 14mm for David. When I saw the penny in the hole, my initial reaction was, "What the hell is that?!?"
Anthony

Nice finds Anthony! The three cent is really tops!

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Love the way you presented those coins, kudos!

 

[woody50]

Love the way you presented those coins, kudos!

He' Carl!
Thanks (if you mean me). I had to look up kudos!

Kudos (pronounced /kou-dos/, often /kuːdoz/), from the Greek κῦδος (not to be confused with κύδος "taunt"), kydos, (literally "that which is heard of") means "fame" and "renown" resulting from an act or achievement. Extending "kudos" to another individual is often done as a praising remark. It entered English as British university slang in the early 1800s. In Standard British English, as in Greek, Kudos is a singular and not a plural noun, and is used exclusively as such in Britain. However, in common use in the US the noun is often plural: She received many kudos ['ku:doz] for her work.

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