What would you say is a large/small coin

I made this topic as I have seen some people say 10 gram coins are large and others that 3 gram coins are small.

Often depends on the coins you have, and for example which country/countries you collect, and how old coins.


If you collect only modern coins, you may already say that the 1 Eurocent is small, and for example https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces84227.html and https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces2157.html are tiny. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces8327.html may already be large.

If you collect older coins, there are very many under 0.5g coins. Probably my most interesting tiny coin is https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces53301.html

Large usual coins include the cartwheel penny, https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces8257.html , https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces111330.html and these: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/suede-2.html#c_suede5109
which coins are your largest and smallest ones?

I'd call a coin large/small based on their relative diameter; say which one looks bigger/smaller in comparison to other coins in a bulk lot.

For Malaysian common coins, the 50 Sen coins from the 1st & 2nd series are often called the "big/large 50 Sen" by the locals, while the smaller 50 Sen coins (from 3rd Series) are "small 50 Sen". Some vending machines/shopping carts actually use these terms to indicate compatible type for the coin slots.

I think of a 5g franc and smaller coins in the small class. 10g two francs is almost too big to be included in small.
a 12g half-dollar I think is the lower bound for large coins.

Like most things in life, the terms of large/small are not mathematically defined, and thus extremely subjective to say the least.

But I'd generally consider anything 38-40mm (crownsize) and over to be "large" to me, and anything under roughly the size of a sixpence (19-20mm) to be "small" to me.

Weight plays a factor too; sometimes you can have a coin with a diameter of over 30mm, but it's made of cardboard (e.g. a French notgeld from Lille, 1915 and other French ones like it from the 1914-18 war). Although for the most part, in conventional coinage weight and diameter are reasonably correlated.

If it's under 14.187026 mm it's small, if it's over 29.531279 mm it's large. In between is normal size. That's a mathematical fact, discussion over!


Also interesting, did you know that 27.8% of facts are made up?

Quote: "sc.rednek"​If it's under 14.187026 mm it's small, if it's over 29.531279 mm it's large. In between is normal size. That's a mathematical fact, discussion over!
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​Also interesting, did you know that 27.8% of facts are made up?

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