English Dated Coin Run

HiBucky

While things are slow I want to start a date run of coins. I really don't care from what country they are from. I want to know what is the earliest dated coin that I can start with that is written under the numerical system date that I can expect to find. I know some coins are dated in the 1500's. Are any dated before this. What dates do you think I will never find or see... Is this possible to do ? Thanks Jim

Sapyx

While there are plenty of dated coins in the ancient and mediaeval series that one could collect, the dates are neither in the AD calendar nor written in modern Western numerals.

The earliest coin with an AD date was a coin from Roskilde, Denmark, dated 1234 - but this, and other very early dated coins, used the Roman numeral system. Western-style numerals hadn't been invented then.

The earliest appearance of "modern" western-style numbers on coins is This coin from Saint Gall, a canton of Switzerland; it's dated 1424, and the number "4" hasn't quite evolved into it's modern form.

All these very early coins are isolated examples, and do not yield a "run of dates". The earliest such run of dates is I think from Hungary, where the small silver denars are regularly dated from the very early 1500's.

Dates did nor appear on English coins until the mid-1500's, and again the practice was initially erratic, with few if any "runs" possible. The first coins in the English/British series I would consider to be routinely dated are the larger Commonwealth silver coins (1649-1657) and the coins of Charles II and subsequent monarchs (1660-).

SaorAlba

The first dated British coins were Scottish gold coins dated 1539 issued during the reign of James V. The first English dated coins I believe are 1551 and were issued during the reign of Edward VI. Putting dates on coins in Britain was somewhat sporadic until the reign of Charles II(1660-1685) when they became standard in 1662.

HiBucky

Thank you for your help, knowledge and time to explain what I am up against. . I will need to do more research before I go forward with this project... Jim