What's your smallest coin?

[keldaw]

[attachment=793][attachment=792][attachment=791][attachment=790][attachment=789]also , what about thin coins too , and how thin must a coin get before you can bend it just with your bare hands .

 this is my thinest coin , dont know anything about it , where it is from ,or how much it is , i dont know anything about it ..  ,, kel ,,

maybe pictures will help ..   sorry ..

[trout]

also , what about thin coins too , and how thin must a coin get before you can bend it just with your bare hands .

 this is my thinest coin , dont know anything about it , where it is from ,or how much it is , i dont know anything about it ..  ,, kel ,,

maybe pictures will help ..   sorry ..

It looks Turkish to me :good:

[keldaw]

also , what about thin coins too , and how thin must a coin get before you can bend it just with your bare hands .

 this is my thinest coin , dont know anything about it , where it is from ,or how much it is , i dont know anything about it ..  ,, kel ,,

maybe pictures will help ..   sorry ..

It looks Turkish to me :good:

thank trout , aj told me i could depend on you .. ha ha ha ..

[ausjack]

Wow Kel, that's pretty thin alright. Looks like some sort of arabic but I think the ribbon should be on the bottom of the pic but not sure how you'd look at it..SAPPPPPP come on mate :friends:
Very niccccce

[keldaw]

Wow Kel, that's pretty thin alright. Looks like some sort of arabic but I think the ribbon should be on the bottom of the pic but not sure how you'd look at it..SAPPPPPP come on mate :friends:

Very niccccce

 sure A J  , just click on the pic to enlarge it then click on the arrow and it will turn around to put the ribbon on the bottom ..    ,, kel ,,

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[ausjack]

Thanks Kel, have a look here mate, very interesting http://worldcoingallery.com/Inst-ID/index.html
and here on the same site http://worldcoingallery.com/Inst-ID/Arabic.htm hope it helps
Try Tunisia Kharub and from what I can work out it's from regnal 23 (what ever that means) and it's date is 1223 theirs but I think that's about 1836 in our years if I worked it out right

[keldaw]

thanks AJ ,
      just goes to show , you are smarter then me .ok  ,, kel ,,

[ausjack]

:yahoo: but nah I don't think so Kel, I'm only just starting to get used to using the computer a little bit but still sooooo much to learn though and you'll see I know FA when Sap or someone that actually knows about these coins comes on and tells ya all about it as I just done a google seach :biggrin:

Hang in there Kel and just keep playing mate, these things do sort of get a little easier :good:

[keldaw]

off line now for few days , going to brisbane for my party /
..70 on friday and the kids wan to give me a party in the park..
  as i am in bris i might as well do a bit of a visit around some of my xxx workmates .. talk again next week ..      ,, kel ,,

[Triggersmob]

Not sure if you guys know about this site already. Very handy for working out foreign dates.
http://creounity.com/apps/time_machine/index.php?go=afghanistan.php&lang=en

[Sapyx]

Yes, the coin keldaw posted is indeed Ottoman Turkish, dated 1223 Year 23 (AD 1829-1830).

As for Kel's question about thin-ness: I'm sure a materials scientist could give a more thorough explanation, but the "bendability" of a coin depends on several factors other than thickness, including what metal the coin is made of, what kind of "working" was done to the metal to harden or soften it, and the coin's diameter; a larger coin offers more leverage and can be bent more easily than a smaller coin of the same material and same proportional thickness.

While ancient coins were notoriously thick with very high relief designs, many mediaeval silver coins are very thin. It was apparently common practice back then to wrap and fold coins around a piece of string to wear around the neck for safekeeping. This is why a great many early English and European coins are found already bent.

One interesting property of silver is that it "crystallizes" with age; it becomes more brittle over time. Mediaeval silver coins that could bend easily when they were freshly minted would now snap clean in half instead.

[Triggersmob]

I'm not sure about my thinnest coin, but I think this Qing Dynasty coin would be a contender.
 
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[keldaw]

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not leaving till 9.30 am so just a quick one ..

 steve is it the same as these  ??
the dark one in the pic of 4 is a little bit smaller so i think it may be different to the others ,  
i dont know if they are of any value in this condition but kinda nice to have still .. and makes you wonder where they have travelled to and from and how many hands they have been through in there lifetime ??
i think interesting items still .. 183 years old ,,, great hey ,,,

 ,, kel ,,

[ausjack]

I think a lot of us are the same in that way as I don't know what it is but there's just something about holding something very old or rare, be it coins, papers, a tool, an amimal or even the ground we walk on..i just get a warm fuzzy :stinker: Ooop's, pardon me please :mocking:

[Triggersmob]

steve is it the same as these  ??

 ,, kel ,,

Very similar, check this site and see if you can identify them..
http://www.sportstune.com/chinese/coins/idpage2.html