post your oldest coin HERE

post your oldest coin here. it can be any kind. from Indian heads to reales, from reales to ancients. Any kind Thanks Noah
Ps paper notes can be posted too.

 

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86 BC, Roman Republic

 

Ancient Greek:


Bruttium, Kaulonia
AR Nomos, 475-425 BC, 8.37g
Obverse: Apollo advancing right holding branch, stag standing before.
Reverse: Stag standing right, laurel branch right.
References: Noe group F, 99 (same dies); SNG ANS 176 (same obverse die)

There are some Lydian coins 200ish years earlier, I am sure someone will post one.

Ancient Chinese can be older, and eventually the debate about what is a "coin" comes into play.

 

Maybe not the best, but at least the oldest.
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Five litrae piece of Philistis, wife of Hieron II, minted in Syracuse, Sicily, 270-230 B.C.

 

This coin is probably the oldest coin with horse cart on it. Another error coin... (is there such a term "ancient error coin"?)

"Five" is written on it? Or, as almost always done, that value too is from other sources?

 

How about this one..

 

One of these Caesars, I'm not sure which is older, but I have a sneaking suspicion that I'm about to learn a thing or two about them.

 

@Kirkuleez

Gee, my oldest coin is a newborn in this group. Maybe I need to expand my horizons.

I really like the Caesars. And I'm probably a hot candidate to get stuck with an El Fako if I venture that way.

 

I didn't venture out. I had a friend who found them and about sixty other pieces renovating a house and the new owner told him to keep them. He went to a pawn shop and they offered him a hundred bucks for the lot. I ended up giving him five hundred for the lot knowing very little about the values, but it seems like I did well and he was thrilled.

 

Septimius Severus, 193-211

 

If the "old" here is not limited to the written/depicted/measured date, my this coin is the oldest coin: https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/therarest-jpg.667363/

Not that it is the oldest in its date (it is "2017", new date)
Not that it is the oldest in its text (it is "kurus", new name)
Not that it is the oldest in its symbols/picture (it is "snowdrop flower", newer than, eg, "tree of life", whatever it is.)
Not that it is the oldest in its material (it is a cupper&zinc alloy, new material)
Etc...

But, from one point of view, it is the oldest.
It has a common property with these 9,000 years old stones,
https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/token4-gif.669727/
https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/token1-gif.669728/
which are called "counting tokens" by an archaeology expert/prof
and, that common property makes this 2017 dated 1kurus the coin and the oldest coin.

 

Someone left the gate opened again.........

 

It was kept open, for me, to exit from here....
Thanks. (late here in the night, good evening there.)

 

Constatine II
307-314 AD
Roman

 

Let's bang it shut for sure.......

 

Something comes to mind about not letting the gate hit one in the fanny.