Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3407349, member: 98035&quot;]Fascinating stuff!</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have any real artifacts; haven&#039;t found anything that speaks to me like coins do. My oldest man-made, non-coin possessions would probably be:</p><p>1) A late 19th century unidentified handgun bullet (made of lead but rifled, so post-Civil War)</p><p>2) A late 19th or early 20th century Catholic necklace housing a bone shard of Francis of Assisi&nbsp; (from my Catholic confirmation under that saint... a *long* time ago)</p><p>3) My grandfather&#039;s &quot;treasure box&quot;; a wooden jewelry box made by my great grandfather for my great grandmother in the mid 1920s.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a kid I had a collection of rocks and fossils, mostly given to me by my grandparents&#039; elderly neighbor who was a collector, but his kids didn&#039;t want them when he moved into the nursing home. Some of them are identified, but I have no pictures and no clue which is the oldest. I know I had some Carboniferous-era ferns, and some of those really common Ordovician nautiloids.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for coins,</p><p><br /></p><p>Lydian Kingdom</p><p>Croesus</p><p>560-546 BC</p><p>AR Siglos </p><p>[ATTACH=full]904878[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Others that could be older, but not with certainty:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]904879[/ATTACH] </p><p>Electrum 1/48 stater, either a pre- or proto-coin, or simply an unstuck planchet of a later coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>India, Gandhara Janapada </p><p>AR Shatamana </p><p>600-300 BC (But probably 450-400 BC)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]904883[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]904884[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in