the most years
Whippersnapper
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I've recently discovered that other countries coins can be dated in our future! Lol, well, they started counting from 0 before western culture did anyways. For example in Thailand, it is the year 2563. I found this super fascinating and now I wish to know if the longest running history marked in coinage. What are your coins that have long history? I know the Byzantine and Jewish are very old, but do they have coins dated as such? For example, Japanese calendar is 2680, if I'm not mistaken, but their coins are dated by era, so this is not what I'm looking for. I'm interested to see what you guys know.
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The Hebrew dating on the coins of modern Israel is 3760 years greater than the Christian dating.
For example:
https://en.ucoin.net/coin/israel-10-new-sheqalim-2017/?cid=85665
Israel 10 new sheqalim, 2017. With year 5777 of Jewish calendar.
So, today we are in 5780
But I don't think that their years were 12 months like our are.... shorter periods by our calandar.
The basic Hebrew calendar year is one of twelve lunar months alternating between 29 and 30 days.
Yea, that's exactly the type of information I am hoping to learn. If anyone else has more countries like that I would love to know. It doesn't have to be the longest running, just longer than Georgian.
As far as I know, only Israel, Thai and Nepalese coins fit your criteria.
Thanks, I will look at Nepalese coins.