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Philip II 359-336 B.C. He was the Father of Alexander the Great. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_Macedon

 

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Constantine I 318-319 AD

 

no id what they are. just came with coins lot recent purchase

 

Yes. See that E before the horses? Greek letter epsilon, the fifth in that alphabet, was the symbol for 5.

 

My oldest pieces of metal that functioned as money are cast bronze. My oldest coin book is in the pic also, Garrucci. Shown are two aes rude with marks and a Ramo Seco bar. They are dated, without much accuracy, 1000 to 400 BC.

I see this coin chat thread was hijacked.

 

OLDEST CHINA:

China Shang 1766-1154 BCE or Zhou Dynasty Ghost Face Ant Nose 1.65g Hartill 1.4

OLDEST WESTERN:

Greek
Iona Kolophon
AR Tetartemorion 530-520 BCE
Archaic Apollo
Incuse Punch
0.15g 4.5mm-
SNG Kayhan 343

OLDEST GOLD:

PERSIA Achaemenid
Daris I-Xerxes II 485-420 BCE
AV Daric 14mm 8.3g
LydoMilesian Sardes king wearing kidaris kandys quiver spear bow
Incuse
Carr Type IIIb Group A-B pl XIII 27

 

Do I see a dog?

 

Just sharing my oldest:

 

Here is my oldest coin, it's a 1795 silver dollar.

 

I'm afraid my oldest coins are only 2,500+ years old. It's a tie between these two:

Ionia, Miletos
AR 1/12 stater
Late 6th Cent. - Early 5th Cent. BCE
Forepart of a roaring lion left
Stellate pattern in incuse square.
9.24mm, 1.26g
SNG Kayhan 465



Ionia, Kolophon
AR Tetartemorion.
Late 6th Century BCE.
Obverse: Laureate head of Apollo facing.
Reverse: TE monogram within incuse square.
References: SNG Cop 133; SNG Kayhan 356.
Size: 7mm, 0.25g.

 

Oldest us

 

Oldest us mint products. Had a 1793 wreath cent but I sold it. Have several states issued colonials as well as a couple nova constellatios and fugios

 

101 BC Lucius Sentius denarius, and also the oldest coin I have with an actual date year on it, a 1519 Hungarian one denar.

 

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ngccoin.com/certlookup4278875-007/NGCAncients/ This is my oldest coin, and arguably, the oldest coin ever made circa 590 B.C. I just bought this coin earlier today to complete my coin per century set.

 

My oldest: 42 BC



Roman Republic AR denarius
P. Clodius Turrinus Rome mint, 42 BC
Laureate head of Apollo right; lyre to left / Diana Lucifera standing facing, head right, bow and quiver on her shoulder, holding lighted torch in each hand; M • F at left, P • CLODIVS at right 3.5 g, 19 mm Crawford 494/23; Syd 1117

 

Germanicus, on the left, was a famous general who died in the year 19 AD at age 33, and was considered by the Romans to be their version of Alexander the Great.. He was the adopted son of his uncle, the emperor Tiberius. He was the father of Caligula. Claudius, on the right, was Germanicus' brother and succeeded Caligula. He ruled from 41 to 54 AD and was succeeded by his adopted son, the infamous Nero. The reverse of the Germanicus coin shows the goddess Vesta. You may have heard of the Vestal Virgins. The reverse of the Claudius coins says "Libertas Augusta", "Freedom of the August". The letters SC on both stand for "Senatus Consulto", "By decree of the Senate".

 

I never understood why we Greeks used the symbol "stigma" (a combination of the letters sigma and tau) for the number 6. By rights it should be zeta, the 6th letter. But that's the way it is. (Zeta = 7.) The Greeks still sometimes use letters for numbers, especially in the Greek Church and in reference to monarchs. Alpha = 1, beta =2, etc. up to omega = 800. There is a special symbol for 900 that is not in the alphabet. For 1000 and above, a comma is placed before the letter, for example; ,α = 1000, ,β = 2000, ,γ = 3000 and so on.