What is your oldest coin?

1852 Large Cent

 

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U.S. 1803 Half Dollar, small 3

 

US 1906 Indian head

 

King Stephen penny of England struck around 1136.

 

Oldest milled coin (i.e machine made non-hammered) is a 1674 Charles II sixpence also of England.

 

Followed closely by

 

they made a penny for stephen king in the 1100s?? how did they know he was going to be such a good writer 900 years before his time?
hehehe

 

1847 Large Cent

 

oldest

1787 New Jersey copper.

Tony.............

 

1834 bust half dime I think....

 

Sweeeeeet. Any chance you can throw a scan up?

 

I wish I knew whether any of my three oldest coins (all Indian, acquired as part of a large lot of world coins) are genuine, but in response to e-mailed pictures, a leading expert on early Indian coinage did ID them, and none of them are of types commonly replicated or counterfeited, so far as I can find out.

Here are links to pictures, his IDs, and my comments on information about them gathered on the internet.

#1 - 6th Century BCE Side 1 Side 2

Specifications: 2.8g, 9.5x17mm, silver colored with a hint of golden toning

ID: punchmarked silver piece of Mauryan dynasty

Comments: The concept of coins as defined weights of precious metal with governmental markings of authenticity is believed to have been independently invented in Greece, India and China. The Mauryans were the Indian inventors around the 6th century B.C.E.

#2 - 9th Century Side 1 Side 2

Specifications: 3.8g, 17.52mm, copper or bronze

ID: Chola dynasty copper

Comments: The Chola Dynasty in southern India reached it's peak in the mid-9th Century.

#3 - 12th Century Side 1 Side 2

Specifications: 3.1g, 14.5mm, silver colored

ID: a degenerate horseman type coin of medieval northern India

Comments: Many centuries elapsed from the time of the Huns invasion till the coming of the Mohammedans in the twelfth century, without leaving traces of history behind. Not much political history is known during this so called dark age, but definitely this was a transition point in the Indian history

 

Scan

hey, you're in NJ too huh, good. Sorry no scanner.
I believe it's AG-G but the date is readable and the design is there, good enough for me.

Tony

 

Oldest that I can get a date off of is this 1820 large cent. I also found a 1823 which is kinda a key date for the large cent series. Its in rough shape though.

 

US: Fugio(1787)
World: A big chunky copper from Russia(1757)

 

1708 Germany (Aachen) 8 Marck

 

i have a few old english hammered and russian wires

 

Well, at the risk of sounding the oddball of the bunch:

1871 Guatemalan 1 Centavo.

 

Already posted in the World Coins Forum in a topic of approximately the same title.

My oldest is an electrum 1/6 stater from about 550 BC. My interest when I collected was small silvers worth about a day's wages from the towns and times of famous philosophers. So, I have another silver 1/6 stater from Miletos (for Thales) also about 500-550 BC and a fractional obol from Abdera (for Democritus) about 500 BC.