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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ycon, post: 3135423, member: 91771&quot;]I&#039;m too impatient for the <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/game-world-coins-time-machine%E2%80%A6-counting-backward-by-year-plus-prize-coin.298151/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/game-world-coins-time-machine%E2%80%A6-counting-backward-by-year-plus-prize-coin.298151/">time machine</a> to get back to the fifteenth century! And while there was already <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/earliest-dated-coin.300889/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/earliest-dated-coin.300889/">this</a> thread on early dated coins, it was about the general history and not cointalkers&#039; examples--and it was also restricted to AD dates written in arabic numerals.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, what is your earliest dated coin?</p><p><br /></p><p>It can be in any dating system, using any kind of numeral.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mine is from 1494 in Roman numerals--MCCCCLXXXXIIII. I just wrote it up in <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/fascinating-renaissance-coin.320046/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/fascinating-renaissance-coin.320046/">another thread</a>, but here it is again:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]800548[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Giovanni II Bentivoglio (1494-1506). Bologna</b>. Pattern Testone. 1494. O/ II BONONIENSIS IOANNES BENTIVO LVS. Capped bust to the. R/ B XIMILIANI IMPERATORIS MVNV MCCCCLXXXX IIII. Chim.221. Hill 606. AE 10.96g 29.00mm Dies engraved by Francesco Raibolini called Francesco Francia. RR. Original strike. Plugged hole. XF.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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