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What is the oldest coin you have?

SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
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For me it is an 1803 Large cent. Hoping to crack the 1800 barrier and go back into the 1700's with an early US coin and maybe even a colonial or two.
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  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
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  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
    Currently an 1833 half cent, PCGS AU-58:

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  • 123cents123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭
    1787 Fugio Cent. image
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  • OldnewbieOldnewbie Posts: 1,425 ✭✭
    I have a Byzantine Michael VII electrum made between 1071-1078 A.D.
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭
    1797 Large Cent...........

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  • kryptonitecomicskryptonitecomics Posts: 9,185 ✭
    I have a Roman Double Denari from around 300 AD
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  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,793 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1564-94 Austria Hall Taler - Archduke Ferdinand in NGC AU-58
      Obv: Crowned Bust Right Holding Sword and OrbRev: Crowned Arms in Order Chain
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    Stuart

    Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal

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  • OldnewbieOldnewbie Posts: 1,425 ✭✭
    Someone needs to go "B.C." on us.
  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭
    My oldest US mint coin is 1794, I have two large cents and a half from this year. If I can ever figure out how to load my own avatar I'll make one of them my avatar. I have some colonial coins that are older but don't have them organized yet.

    --Jerry
  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Someone needs to go "B.C." on us. >>



    I'm gonna call foul since this is a us coin forum (and I don't have any older coins anyway.)image
  • numobrinumobri Posts: 1,473 ✭✭✭


    I own a Silver Tetradrachm(Owl) from Athens,around 640 BC.


    Brian
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  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,246 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Currently 1829.

    The oldest U.S. I've ever had was a 1795 and the oldest world was 1783.
  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,303 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • numobrinumobri Posts: 1,473 ✭✭✭


    OK,1795 Flowing hair dollar in PCGS XF 45.


    Brian
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  • nesvtnesvt Posts: 2,214
    African. Numidian Kingdom, King Micipsa, 148 - 118 B.C. I think I found it in a box of buttons at an antique store.


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  • OneyOney Posts: 1,394 ✭✭✭✭
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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,731 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Someone needs to go "B.C." on us. >>



    I'm gonna call foul since this is a us coin forum (and I don't have any older coins anyway.)image >>



    OK. Forget the ancients (most of mine were traded off anyway).

    My niece found a round stone which appears to have been carved by natives near the tip of
    Lake Superior some years back. Many of these date from before European settlement. They're
    not truly coins but some are believed to have functioned somehat like a token.

    While they aren't mine (so far as I know), there were ancient Roman coins found in a cave in
    Kentucky in 1927 and published in National Geographic. What makes this find so interesting
    is that the cave was know to have been sealed since before Columbus. Perhaps these "circu-
    lated" among the indians of the time. image
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • SmallTownCoinsSmallTownCoins Posts: 688 ✭✭


    << <i>Someone needs to go "B.C." on us. >>



    I'll go... Years ago I built a World Century Type set.... (I still have it)
    I got it back to the 5th century B.C. with an Egyptian Pharosalos from 480 bc.
    The set consist's of 26 coin's, One from each Century.....
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  • OldnewbieOldnewbie Posts: 1,425 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Someone needs to go "B.C." on us. >>



    I'm gonna call foul since this is a us coin forum (and I don't have any older coins anyway.)image >>



    Well FINE!image

    I own a 1723/22 Wood's Hibernia halfpenny.

    I can't find any pics this morning to save my life.
  • itsnotjustmeitsnotjustme Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭
    1723. Found with my White's CoinMaster as a kid.
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  • lkrarecoinslkrarecoins Posts: 2,137 ✭✭✭
    1795 Large Cent....with a hole image
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  • baddspellarbaddspellar Posts: 270 ✭✭✭
    US:
    1803 Half cent
    I also have a Pillar Dollar from 1751. It's in redbook, but I don't think this counts.

    Darkside (post-Medieval)
    Elizabeth I silver sixpence from the 1570's (1579, if I recall correctly)

    Ancient:
    Western: Roman republic circa 126 BC
    Eastern: Pan-Liang, Qin/Ch'in Dynasty Emperor Shih Huang-Ti 221-209BC
    I also have an Ant-nose from China. That would put it at 600 - 300 BC, but it's hardly recognizeable as a coin. The Pan-Liang is very clearly a coin.


  • RichieURichRichieURich Posts: 8,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    St. Patrick's farthing and halfpenny, 1663 - 1672 according to the Redbook.

    An authorized PCGS dealer, and a contributor to the Red Book.

  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,723 ✭✭✭✭✭
    US? I have a chain cent
    Ancient? I have some from Greece from the second or third century BC
  • LeianaLeiana Posts: 4,349 ✭
    1804 DB Half cent for American.

    1791 8R for silver.

    And I have a few Chinese Cash Coins from like the 1500's.

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    1837 Feuchtwanger's Cent ANACS VF20

    1837 seated half dime VF
  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭
    Here's my oldest dated coin, 1527:

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  • kwmorgankwmorgan Posts: 967 ✭
    Roman silver denarius, from Caesar Augustus's time around 2-4 BC.
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,793 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have a denerus of Geta, a Roman co-emperor, which was minted in 198 AD. The denerus was the “dollar” in the Roman system of coinage.
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  • curlycurly Posts: 2,880 ✭
    1798 large cent here
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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,685 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A tiny billon coin of Constantius II as Caesar, circa AD 330. It is all that is left of my ancient coin collection.
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  • HighReliefHighRelief Posts: 3,717 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My 1749 Mexico 8 Reales Pillar Dollar

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  • SmallSizedGuySmallSizedGuy Posts: 503 ✭✭✭
    Half Cent - 1803
    Cent - 1795
    Five Cents - 1835
    Ten Cents - 1825
    Quarter - 1838
    Half Dollar - 1841
    Dollar - 1878
    Jim Hodgson



    Collector of US Small Size currency, Atlanta FRNs, and Georgia nationals since 1977. Researcher of small size US type - seeking serial number data for all FRN star notes, Series 1928 to 1934-D. Life member SPMC.



  • JRoccoJRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My daughter has a bunch of ancients that we picked up at a show once, aside from those- this would be mine.
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  • shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
    I have some 1st century BC bronze prutahs, but my oldest dated coin is a 1530 Saxony Ernestine taler. Who knows-- maybe it was used by Katie Luther!
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  • MajorDutyMajorDuty Posts: 1,998
    A red brown 1851 half cent. image Not THAT old.
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    1834 Capped bust half!

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  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,562 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This one....

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    2000 year old Mite.
  • JcarneyJcarney Posts: 3,154 ✭
    My oldest US coins are a 1798 LC and an 1804 half cent in my Dansco 7070. I have a couple darkside coins from the 17th century and a couple common ancients somewhere.
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  • SilverEagles92SilverEagles92 Posts: 6,787 ✭
    My oldest coin is a 1697 Great Britain 1/2P slabbed by NCS as corroded... I also have a 1771 Danske Skilling, and a 1796 Conder token.
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  • arlea1957arlea1957 Posts: 817
    Let me check my pockets!

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    1803 draped bust half cent.
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  • DabigkahunaDabigkahuna Posts: 3,419

    I just got this VF20 back from PCGS.
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    But this PO1 is my oldest US.


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    bronze lepton circa 30 a.d. during the rule of pontius pilate procurator of judea.
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    1878 Morgan
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