How many years does your coin collection span?

Ok, this can be an interesting thread. Over how many years does your coin collection stretch? What is your oldest coin, and what is your newest coin? Add photos, if you can.

I will start it off— 1818 Bust Half, oldest. 2020s Kennedy Silver Proof
So, a span of 202 years.

 

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Don't have the pictures now but oldest coin a 1798 draped bust cent newest i was surprised to find my first W quarter a 2019 in a roll very recently.

 

A Saxony thaler 1763 to A Spanish 2 Euro cent 2020.
257 years
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At the moment I can’t provide an actual photo of either as one I need to retake and the other is in transit.

The oldest dates to the 1500s (no exact date). Here is a link to the thread (photos unfortunately down).
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/cool-coin-russia-ivan-the-terrible-odd-truview.277096/

And the newest is from 2020 (just recently shipped by the seller).

 

1869 IHC S-3 in "AU64," if you get my meaning. We're not big on anything new. If it drops in our lap, we won't send it away. Got foreign and ancient that came to us same way I hesitate to bore you with.

 

The Ancient folks will blow us away. The title led be to think of my collecting, not what I collect. For me it was 1962-1976, then 2005-Present.

As far as my collection goes, 95% of it is a thousand miles away...in Texas. My focus has been coins of North America. I have some British and Spanish coins that "may" have circulated in present day America, but the earliest one I know for sure is a counterstamped French Sou. Mine looks very similar in color and detail as this one I found on the internet.



Edit: Ooops, I forgot about my Hibernia half pennies. They circulated here, too.

 

I think I've got a 169? six pence sitting around somewhere; so around 320+ years!

 

The luster of your 1818 half is mesmerizing!

 

Thanks. It is an AU 55, but has retained a lot of its luster. Whoever dipped it did an excellent job in the past.

 

485 BC to 2016 AD.... just a little over 2500 years:

 

5th Century B.C.E.-2020 A.D.
J.T.

 

1694 William and Mary -Unbarred Half Cent and 2017 Enhanced reverse proof .

 

Come on....pix or it didn't happen!

 

I've never dipped anything but have heard stories of folks doing it wrong. There's a technique that removes Sulphur tarnish without removing Silver that works pretty well. Set a silver object in a foil-lined dish, dissolve (1:16) baking soda into boiling water, then pour the solution into the foil-lined dish...submerging the object.

The object must be in contact with the Aluminum for this electro-chemical reaction to work. The Silver Sulfide (Ag2S) separates, leaving the Silver. The Sulphur attaches to the Aluminum creating Aluminum Sulfide (Al2S3).

Be sure to rinse the object in distilled water when finished. You may have to do this a few times to remove the heaviest tarnish.

http://blog.teachersource.com/2014/01/18/chemistry-of-tarnished-silver/

I've often thought something similar could be done to reverse Milk Spots, but I have no idea what compound a Milk Spot actually is. I'm thinking Silver Chloride, but that's just a guess.

 

Pantikapaion. 275-245 BC

and I just returned this but will have a replacement one way or another soon:


so 2,266 years at least.

 

This is really fascinating. The collectors here have wide and diverse interests. The Ancient coins blow me away, completely.

 

1876 to 2013

 

That's a tough question hehe.. for US coins i can call it 1780s (NJ 1787/mass copper 1788 etc) or 240 or so years for world coins I have widow mites, very poor romans and even a few chinese cast "money coins" all from from around year "0" soo 2020ish years old? however the majority of my collection is 1800s copper and silver us coins and I have plenty of "modern" coinage most recent i think my 2019 w reverse proof cent though got a few 2020 and 2021 set aside from change already

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The oldest coin in my collection is from 1807...



The most recent coin is a 2020. So that is a range from 1807-2020.

For a continuous run, I have a coin from every year from 1857-2020