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Been busy working but......What is your oldest and newest coin?

1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,784 ✭✭✭✭✭

Your oldest and newest coin can be based on purchase date or date on the coin. :smile:

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  • CommemKingCommemKing Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭✭✭

    oldest and newest in my main graded collection.

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,009 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Silver dinerous of Roman emperor Geta, 198 AD

    Newest coins - 2017 silver Proof set.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,784 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CommemKing
    I know that one of those is 1964 from Denver, please educate me about the other :smile:

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    Bad transactions with : nobody to date

  • yosclimberyosclimber Posts: 4,794 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Old one is an 8R cob. Cert Verification says dated 1701-1733.
    Date might be partly visible as 1711?
    https://pcgs.com/cert/29971875

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,784 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice :smile:
    An 8R cob...............I learned something today.thanks :smile:

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    Bad transactions with : nobody to date

  • MrHalfDimeMrHalfDime Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭✭

    For a narrowly focused half dime collector like myself the answer is pretty straightforward. My oldest coin is a 1794 half dime (I wish I could say that it was a 1792 half disme, but alas it is not), and my 'newest' coin is an 1873 half dime. I do have a few 'modern' Lincoln cents and Jefferson nickels, but I do not consider them part of the collection

    They that can give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither Liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
  • FairlanemanFairlaneman Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭✭

    9-21-2017. 1937S PCGS MS67 Mercury Dime.


    Ken

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,784 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This could end up being an interesting thread, thanks for posting:smiley: :

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    Bad transactions with : nobody to date

  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Oldest (because you can't go much older than dawn of coinage)

    Newest (not quite, but since it just arrived a couple of days ago):

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,784 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Weiss
    I know nothing about the first coin but the second is very nicely designed :smile:

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  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,784 ✭✭✭✭✭

    And I am learning here..........that is 1 oz of platinum ?
    From Mexico ?

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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @1630Boston said:
    And I am learning here..........that is 1 oz of platinum ?
    From Mexico ?

    It's a 1983 silver "Onza" from Mexico. It was one of the first really successful silver bullion one troy ounce coins, beating the Silver American Eagle by a few years. Proofs of these piece were made in very small numbers. This was a recent Heritage win.

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • TommyTypeTommyType Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭✭✭

    1787 Fugio PCGS F-15 is my oldest, (raw or certified)

    2015 Lincoln Cent PCGS MS-66 is my newest certified, (though I could pull out some pocket change if you'd like). Gotta have that new "shield reverse"!!

    (Really need to get a camera again....)

    Easily distracted Type Collector
  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well, I was trying to go for the over and the under on this hand, but I can't beat Lydian gold.


    The Ancient Egypt - Ptolemy II or Ptolemy III (285 to 246 B.C. or slightly later), AE, 46.9mm, 73.3 grams. Obv, Head of Zeus Ammon, dotted border; rev, Eagle on thunderbolt, looking back, wings open, dotted border. Obv. Cracks, edge a bit porous. This coin comes nicer, but this is a large specimen. These photos are more red/yellow than actual coin.

    U.S.A. ATB Quarter Dollar, 2017, Frederick Douglas homestead, Cu-Ni, 24.3 mm, 5.67 grams. I received this coin in change at the doughnut shop today, 09/27/2017

  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    True/ truer color - which is better for illustration (non-commercial) purposes?


  • jedmjedm Posts: 3,030 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not completely sure which one in my collection I've had the longest.. probably my Churchill commemorative from back in grade school days... but my newest is:

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Some very interesting coins here.... I would really have to do some searching to determine my oldest....might be my two cent pieces from when I was a kid.... newest would be the Congratulations ASE....Cheers, RickO

  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Henry VI groat (1430-31) is the oldest, 2017 ASE is the newest.

  • BruceSBruceS Posts: 1,355 ✭✭✭✭✭


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  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Oldest:

    Newest:

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,198 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great thread!

  • clarkbar04clarkbar04 Posts: 4,936 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Since I restarted collecting about 3 years ago, this is the first I added to my "permanent" collection.

    Last newp I imaged was this 42-S walker I bought raw. Not many of these you can see where the thumb and forefinger separate.

    MS66 taste on an MS63 budget.
  • divecchiadivecchia Posts: 6,644 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow, there are some awesome looking coins here!!!

    Thanks for sharing them.

    Donato

    Hobbyist & Collector (not an investor).
    Donato's Complete US Type Set ---- Donato's Dansco 7070 Modified Type Set ---- Donato's Basic U.S. Coin Design Set

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  • Oldest ... (612-621) Visigoth Tremisses

    Newest ... 2012 Switzerland 10 Rappen

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,009 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BillJones said:
    Silver dinerous of Roman emperor Geta, 198 AD

    Newest coins - 2017 silver Proof set.

    Here's the Roman coin. I don't think anyone needs to see the Proof set.


    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • mt_mslamt_msla Posts: 815 ✭✭✭✭

    I REALLY like that SLQ @clarkbar04 good one!

    Insert witicism here. [ xxx ]

  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Geta? (P. Septimus Geta, as Caesar)?

    If so, that's pretty darned neat!

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