Post Your Old Gold !

Really old....
Mysia/ Kyzikos
EL Hecte ND (500 BC)
Ram/ Quadripartite Square Incuse

 

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Just picked up this beauty earlier this week. This variety,
Lev. I-50 has alluded me for years.

She looks a little worse for wear, but the weight is there.
3.44g vs 3.47g
Mainz Archbishopric, Hochst mint

 

I really love this series! My latest is a 1910-S. Nabbed it from @ToughCOINS at the FUN show.

 

Republica Boliviana
AV 8 Escudos 1856-Potosi Mint

 

I recently picked this up, mostly because I had never seen one in person.



Vietnam, Gold Wafer Money, Circa 1960s Kim-Thanh Gold Leaves, AU/UNC, Kim Thanh issue.

Weight: 14.5gms.

Slightly wrinkled, as made. These gold sheets were used as evacuation money by Vietnamese refugees fleeing the country during wartime in the 1960's.

 

A common coin....
AV 8 Escudos 1809-So
Chile/ Colonial under Fernando VII in Admiral outfit.

 

Old gold is so much nicer then newer coinage. The apex of coin making happened in the period 1640-1799/ here is one of mine. From the Abbey of St. Gallen 1773

 

Great stuff, Thanks to all of you. Wish I had something to share.

 

Antonius Pius Aureus, 138 to 161. That's the oldest gold coin I have.

 

That is a nice aureus! I still need his aurei....

 

Kos Is.
EL 1/48 Stater ND (625-600BC)
Kos Mint
Crab/ Incuse Square Punch
These were 65 % gold/ rest Silver

 

Just pulled the trigger on this one from the recently posted Harlan Berk Bid/Buy sale. It's got some issue but, well, so do I. It was a listed low enough that I didn't think long about it.



German States, Mainz, ND Gulden, VF, Mainz / Mayence. Achbishop Konrad III von Dhaun 1419-1434. Goldgulden ND (1428-1434). Bingen mint. With star on obverse right field. Friedberg-1621.

 

Great coin!

 

some from Swiss Kantons...

 

yet another fiver

 

Byzantine Empire
AV Solidus ND
Constantinople Mint
Nicephorus II 963-69

 

Kadambas of Hangal
AV Pagoda ND
Toyimahadeva I 1048-75AD

 

Here are a couple of recent additions.

1745R Brazil 6400 Reis


And this one isn't very old (my kids/grandkids would say otherwise) but I thought it was pretty cool. Hadn't seen one before.

1972 Jamaica 20 Dollars