Hey Everyone, I put together this graphic to show the various U.S. Coin sizes by type. I was amazed the first time I saw a half-dime, or 3 cent piece in person. This will give you a true understanding on how small, or large some of these pieces are. Hopefully this will help some folks to understand the actual size of a new item they are purchasing. After all, they all look so big when it is a image, with nothing else to compare it to. check it out here: http://www.thecoinnection.com/us_coin_size_by_type.html example:
Cool comparison! I remember the first time going to a show as a kid. The coolest thing was being able to see in person gold coins, half dimes, twenty cent pieces, etc. You can read about them all you want, but until they are there in your hands its not the same. I had the same feeling the first time I went to an ancient show. I would say your chart is the next best thing to seeing these in person.
Trivia Question... The page is a wonderful tool, yet incomplete. What denomination(s) are missing from the 20 coins shown in the chart? -thecointrader
25 and 50 dollar gold, early colonial coinage, trade dollar, California fractional gold. Since I don't own any, no one else should either.
I would agree with Pan Pacific gold and trade dollar, but not the other two. I would add that, while I know its not technically different denominations, I think it would be cool to show larger denominations that our coins had over time, like CBH, draped bust dollars, etc.
Yeah, it was tough deciding which ones to use as examples. I really want to put together an interactive piece. Where the user can choose two coins to compare, and even everyday objects to compare them to. I will have every type coin in there when that happens.
As well as $3 gold and $4 gold Oh Stella... Edit: Also the early bust coinage was slightly larger than the later years' coinage.
If he is going to include the ASE he should also include the gold and platinum eagles along with their fractions.
I am just teasing you guys. The next version will include them all with some interaction and what not. I'll spare you the gory details and just let it be a surprise.
That will be very cool if and when you can do it. Meanwhile what you have shown is neat too. I've always been mystified that so many (almost all?) coin diameter measures are such random numbers. The half dollar, for example: Diameter, 30.61 mm (1.205 in); the quarter Diameter (24.26 mm (0.955 in) ; dime 17.91 mm (0.705 in) etc etc. Not remotely standard measures in inches or metric. At least the standard silver dollar is 1.5 inches exactly, right? The older (larger) half dollars are "approx 32.5 mm" whic h equals 1.2795 inches so even then it was seemingly random. I'm sure some expert here can clarify this for me. Even if it pertained to the weight of the silver, that wasn't strictly 90/10 in the early days so that could easily have been manipulated, as could the coin's thickness. ------------------------------- "The United States is the only industrialized country that does not use the metric system as its official system of measurement, although the metric system has been officially sanctioned for use since 1866."
