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Message:: [QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 4546126, member: 105098"]North America...... I guess it would be Wampum. The best known form of money among the native Americans north of Mexico was wampum, made out of the shells of a type of clam. In the form of coins,,,,, would be the colonists and colonial coinage, but not other countries coinage, uniquely North American. Mexico would have used Spains coins until their first ones in the 1860s I think. So Yeah, likely colonial coinage is the oldest there is. Remember, the U.S. is 243 years old, Canada is 150 years old. before that it was other countries coinage, and the Native Americans Wampum. There aren't much ancient coins in North America or South America because the natives that inhabited the lands didn't use coinage in trade. Some ancient Roman coins have turned up in Like Texas or Maine, or South America in Native burial mounds that date to about 800 AD, but again, no idea how they got there or when, or why they were there except maybe they found them interesting as art and had run acroos romans at some point somehow. The Americas really didn't do "Ancient" coins. the Natives didnt' use coins. even "Aztec hoe money" which would be considered ancient for the Americas is from the 1500s.[/QUOTE]