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What is the world's earliest dated coin?

291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,451 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Is it the Roman commemorative of Year of Rome 1000. Was there anything earlier?

Dates relating to imperial titles don't count.
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  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    Yes, they do count, unless you are looking for the earliest coin dated in A.D. but why limit yourself to that?
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If you are talking about a coin dated by the Christian calendar, it is a Danish coin from 1234.

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  • DoogyDoogy Posts: 4,508 ✭


    << <i>If you are talking about a coin dated by the Christian calendar, it is a Danish coin from 1234. >>



    there was also the the Ducat from ABCD produced in 1234; little known fact image
  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There are a few other Roman coins which use the "anno urbis conditae" calendar, counting years since the foundation of Rome in 753 BC. This wikipedia article illustrates a few; the earliest is a coin of Hadrian dated AUC 847 (= AD 121).

    In the Greek and Roman Provincial series, we find even older dated coins, using local calendars. Most calendars in use at the time counted either the regnal years of the local monarch or emperor, or years since the founding (or re-founding) of the city that issued the coin. The oldest city-dated coin in my collection is this dumpy little copper coin of Askalon, Palestine:
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    it's fairly well worn, butt you can still read HQP, Greek numerals for 198. Year 198 in Askalon was 94 AD. My oldest reign-dated coin is one of those "simpulum-and-barley" small Judaean bronzes, dated year 16 of emperor Tiberius = 29/30 AD.

    Seleucid and Parthian tetradrachms often bear a date according to the founding of the Seleucid Empire in 311 BC. I think the Seleucid Era is the oldest dating system you'll find on coins; there's a tetradrachm on that Wiki page dated 105 SE, or 208/7 BC.
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  • ozzysdad47ozzysdad47 Posts: 257
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    I've posted this before and lordM, seemed to think it was a Byzantine Follis ND, Still don't know much about it. Now since LordM is into ancient's he might have a better Idea. Seem's like he did say Nekko? (Sp) Mint?
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  • theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    Do you think my coin dated and stamped 15 BC is fakeimage
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  • satootokosatootoko Posts: 2,720 ✭


    << <i>Do you think my coin dated and stamped 15 BC is fake; >>

    Can't be sure without a picture. image
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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,451 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>If you are talking about a coin dated by the Christian calendar, it is a Danish coin from 1234. >>



    It doesn't have to be the Christian calendar. The date on the Roman coin is based on the Roman calendar.
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