Show me your oldest coin you have or did own at one time

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• DennisH Posts: 14,011 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 8, 2013 5:08AM

  

  When in doubt, don't.

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• coinsarefun Posts: 21,758 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 8, 2013 5:11AM

  
  
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  Sweet Dennis
  
  
  

  CoinsAreFun Pictorials Album
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  CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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  Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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  More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 8, 2013 5:17AM

  Not really sure right now but off the top of my head this might be my eldest once owned...
  
  

  To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  

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• Swampboy Posts: 13,111 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 8, 2013 5:57AM

  
  
  bronze of Phillip of Macedon.

  "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

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• DIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 8, 2013 6:06AM

  I had a 1796 Dime.....no pic.
  
  I will get another one someday!

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• seanq Posts: 8,733 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 8, 2013 6:50AM

  I once had a 1562 Queen Elizabeth half groat, found amongst a handful of coins in my great-grandmother's estate, but I can't find a picture of it.
  
  
  Sean Reynolds

  Incomplete planchets wanted, especially Lincoln Cents & type coins.
  
  "Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor

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• Staircoins Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭

  January 8, 2013 7:07AM

  
  Byzantine gold solidus of the joint reign of Constans II and Constantine IV, 654-668 AD, Constantinople
  
  
  (4.41 g, 19.1 mm x 20.9 mm)
  
  
  

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• bronzemat Posts: 2,666 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 8, 2013 7:46AM

  Hard to take a pic of due to its small size
  
  
  
  Ionia, Miletos 600 B.C.
  AR 1/12 Stater
  O: Lion forepart
  R: Star pattern
  .6g
  9.5mm

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• silverpop Posts: 6,745 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 8, 2013 8:18AM

  roman coin dated to 70 A.D still own this
  
  

  Coins for Sale: Both Graded and Ungraded
  https://photos.app.goo.gl/oqym2YtcS7ZAZ73D6

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• BustHalfBrian Posts: 4,192 ✭✭✭✭

  January 8, 2013 11:53AM

  

  Lurking and learning since 2010. Full-time professional numismatist based in SoCal.

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• bronzemat Posts: 2,666 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 8, 2013 11:57AM

  ^Pretty bustie!

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• Weiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 8, 2013 1:23PM

  
  
  Lydia pre-Croesus (Alyattes) 610-565 BC Trite
  Electrum, 4.74 grams
  Weidauer series XVI, 86-89
  
  
  Lydia, Croesus, 565-546 BC, Siglos,
  AG, 5.28 grams
  

  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
  

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• SmEagle1795 Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 8, 2013 1:27PM

  The Arsinoe II Octadrachm I've posted in this thread is from around 240BC.

  Learn about our world's shared history told through the first millennium of coinage: Colosseo Collection

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• Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 8, 2013 3:13PM

  I have one dont know the year but here it is.
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Hoard the keys.

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