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Message:: [QUOTE="Billy Kingsley, post: 709965, member: 19456"]One of my pet peeves is when coins don't carry the date of issue of them. US Currency is worse. Don't get me wrong, I love US Currency, but I would like that much more if they were dated the year they were made.  Coins that aren't dated are even worse. I believe I read that the first coin to actually carry a date on it was 1234. (I think some Roman coins at least also carried a date, but I am still learning about Romans and could be wrong.  I guess maybe I am just OCD when it comes to this kind of stuff; I list and store all my coins (and everything else I collect, for that matter) in chronological order, and when applicable in series order by year. It's not so easy to do that when they (whatever they may be) don't carry a date or carry a date that is not it's actual year.  I think...based on what I have observed, but I could be wrong...that most coins are dated based on their intended year of circulation...but it is not unknown for dates to carry over with old dies used, or dates to be "frozen" on a coin for it's lifespan...I am sure if I am wrong someone with more knowledge then I will come along and correct my misinformation...(I hope they do, so I can learn)[/QUOTE]