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    TrinkettsTrinketts Posts: 1,699 ✭
    The conder token in my Sig Pic

    1789 Middlesex Token NGC MS63 BN PL
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    shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭


    << <i>1878 Morgan >>



    Ack! I collector of modern crap!







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    Obscurum per obscurius
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    LeeGLeeG Posts: 12,162 ✭
    These two 1806's:


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    majorbigtimemajorbigtime Posts: 2,937 ✭
    I have a full set of 1793s (cent and half cent)!!
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    FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭
    This is Modern Crap™ compared to most of your posts.image

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    TraderGioTraderGio Posts: 252
    Here are two my oldest:
    Washington Success Token (1792-1795).
    1794 Liberty cap One cent.
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    tpfnartpfnar Posts: 247

    THe oldest dated coin is 1572, but I have some old undated Roman coins too
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    66Tbird66Tbird Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭
    Darkside 1694 Shillinger in MS64 PCGS very cool IMO
    Need something designed and 3D printed?
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    ss350camaross350camaro Posts: 4,529 ✭
    1793

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    xbobxbob Posts: 1,979 ✭
    My oldest U.S. is this gripped edge large cent that I have in my 7070.

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    -Bob
    collections: Maryland related coins & exonumia, 7070 Type set, and Video Arcade Tokens.
    The Low Budget Y2K Registry Set
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    CurleyCurley Posts: 134
    1856 Flying Eagle cent; would love to have a Continental Dollar but must win lottery first!
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    BikingnutBikingnut Posts: 3,561 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1828 Half cent
    US Navy CWO3 retired. 12/81-09/04

    Looking for PCGS AU58 Washington's, 32-63.
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    DieClashDieClash Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭
    2006 Nevada Statehood quarter, swear to God! Oh, "oldest" piece....Nevermind! image
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    ledzep87ledzep87 Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭
    Right now, a 1875 seated dime.

    I had a 1845 Large cent, but it was given to a YN to start him off on coins.
    Great transaction with: Relaxn, Collectorcoins, OKCC
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    RotatedRainbowsRotatedRainbows Posts: 2,085 ✭✭
    124 BC, I wonder if the coin doctors were around back then??

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    WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    C'mon, now. Y'all know you can't beat Weiss in this one image

    565-546 BC, Siglos, AR 5.28g. Lydia under Croesus.

    One of the first true coins ever made. It was part of the first fractional, proportional, bi-metallic system of refined silver to gold coins, bearing what we would recognize as a royal device, and issued under authority of the lawful government.

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    And if that doesn't do it for you, my icon predates it by ~ 30 years. 610-565 BC, Trite, Electrum, 4.74g. Lydia pre-Croesus (likely Alyattes). Considered by many to be the first true coin ever made:

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    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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    MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,192 ✭✭✭✭
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    Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.
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    DoctorPaperDoctorPaper Posts: 616 ✭✭✭
    Oldest US: 1652 Massachusetts Colony Oak Tree shilling, badly clipped (too bad!!!).

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    Wisconsin nationals: gotta love 'em....
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    DoctorPaperDoctorPaper Posts: 616 ✭✭✭
    Oldest ancient: Greek silver stater (Metapontion) 480-510 BC. Notice the incuse reverse.
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    Wisconsin nationals: gotta love 'em....
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    mach19mach19 Posts: 5,139 ✭✭✭✭
    1850 half cent token. I found this coin near a corner store about theny five years ago.
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    mozinmozin Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭
    My oldest is 1795 Bust Half PCGS VF35, one of only two coins I have dated in the 1700s.

    My nicest is a 1795 Dollar in high MS. It just happens to be a copy.image
    I collect Capped Bust series by variety in PCGS AU/MS grades.
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    AceKAceK Posts: 414


    << <i> For me it is an 1803 Large cent. >>

    Me too!

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    USAROKUSAROK Posts: 887 ✭✭✭
    This PCGS AU 50 1794 Head of 1794 S31 Large Cent is the oldest coin in my collection and it's my personal favorite.

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    Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    I have an Alexander the Great piece, I'm not sure if I have anything older than that or not.
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    OKbustchaserOKbustchaser Posts: 5,570 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't love to look at a pretty bust.
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    boiler78boiler78 Posts: 3,119 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Kings of Lydia gold stater circa 560-525 BC

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    Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
    my oldest us coin
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    1794half18391794half1839 Posts: 505 ✭
    1810 Half. Used to be 1795 half ,but
    i sold it.
    Greg Cohen

    Senior Numismatist

    Legend Rare Coin Auctions
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    seatedcoinsseatedcoins Posts: 1,096 ✭
    An Oak Wreath coin circa 133 BC Lydia, Sardes (Greek Coiin)

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    etexmikeetexmike Posts: 6,852 ✭✭✭
    I have this thing from 1785 in the collection now.

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    Mike
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    GrivGriv Posts: 2,804 ✭
    Surprise! And it's not even slabbed.

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    PlacidPlacid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭
    228-231 AD
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    BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's my earliest mint error a strike through on an overdate 1808/7 NCG AU55 ex Harry W. Bass Jr.

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    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
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    HighReliefHighRelief Posts: 3,729 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    jmski52jmski52 Posts: 24,020 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Q: Are You Printing Money? Bernanke: Not Literally

    I knew it would happen.
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    MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,618 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My oldest coin is currently this...1722 Hibernia Halfpenny Pattern, Rocks Right VF25 [PCGS] Norweb

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    The oldest coin I've ever owned was this...May, 1690 Ireland 'Gun Money' Half Crown MS63 [PCGS]

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    LeeGLeeG Posts: 12,162 ✭
    A piece of old copper:


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    lcoopielcoopie Posts: 8,875 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    my eldest
    LCoopie = Les
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    SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 13,250 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just saw my old thread from 8-2006 resurface.

    Since the OP, my oldest coin has changed from 1803 to 1794. I recently picked up a 1794 Large Cent. I also picked up a 1798/7 Large Cent.

    So I am now officially the proud owner of 18th Century American coinageimage
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    LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I went back a bit in two years also.
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    My Current project....https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/mysetregistry/album/160794
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    messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,857 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have a bag full of widow's mites somewhere. Oldest US is an 1803 half cent, also somewhere.
    John
    Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
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    JZraritiesJZrarities Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭
    Oh,,somewhere around 350BC.

    Alexander the Great was just a young Pup...

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    zeus135zeus135 Posts: 1,043 ✭
    I have an 1802 Draped Bust cent in my Type Set.
    My humble '63 mint registry set, not much, but it's mine!
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    coinsarefuncoinsarefun Posts: 21,781 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    CoinsAreFun Pictorials Album FOR SALE SOME will mark final ones before auction
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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 FOR SALE
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    SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,269 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 25, 2020 10:02PM
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    359-336 B.C.
    Phillip II.
    Macedonian Mint.

    River patina?

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

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    DanegeldDanegeld Posts: 1,497
    Eh, 450-400 BC I guess. Cleaned it up myself...

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    100% DAV, Been There and Done That!
    166 BHDs & 154 Die Varieties & Die States...
    Bust Half Nut Club #180

    Festivus Yes! Bagels No!
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    mcheathmcheath Posts: 2,441 ✭✭✭
    This one is from 1792-1794. It could be argued if it is a true colonial but its in the redbook so here it is.
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    lope208lope208 Posts: 1,960 ✭✭
    Oldest US Coin: 1851 Coronet Cent
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    Oldest World Coin: 1736 VOC Cent
    bought these on the BST recently. Loved the history when I looked in to them!
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    Successful BST transactions:
    commoncents123, JrGMan2004, Coll3ctor (2), Dabigkahuna, BAJJERFAN, Boom, GRANDAM, newsman, cohodk, kklambo, seateddime, ajia, mirabela, Weather11am, keepdachange, gsa1fan, cone10
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    PatchFanaticPatchFanatic Posts: 284
    1851 Large Cent
    Completed BS&T Deals

    halfnut X3, Dabigkahuna, Kaelasdad, LALASD4, harvey85422458,
    fivecents, Coll3ctor, cucamongacoin, Becoka
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    DJCoinzDJCoinz Posts: 3,856 ✭
    100 image

    Here's my oldest:
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    aka Dan

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