Nifty Find in Local Shop

[Grog]

Found an old coin from India today. Very small, about 1/2 the size of a pinky fingernail. Inexpensive, so I bought it. Looks like it was made around 1790ish. The picture below is not mine but the one I purchased looks exactly like it. I would have hated to use this coin as currency way back when. I'll bet folks lost them all the time. And here I thought dimes were too small.

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/yw/2002/06/01/stories/2002060100200300.htm

[Awoke]

It's too bad you didn't place a dime or a quarter beside yours and take a photo!
That would put it in perspective.

[Grog]

I sent it via interoffice mail to my web developer in Bangalore. Mysore is very near Bangalore and I thought it would be a good gift for him, and neat to repatriate the coin. Here is a picture of it in a coin holder.

http://imgur.com/XgEHi

http://imgur.com/XgEHi

[madfranks]

Wow - that is small!

[JohnQPublic]

Here are a couple of new half gram coins I picked up at a jeelry store in India in 2009.
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