Whats your oldest coin?

[Mousey]

Just out of interest, What is the oldest coin anyone here has had?

mine is from about 1928 and is a 6 pence piece.

[Chris Perkins]

I have a circa 200 BC Ptolomy (can't remember which) copper coin. The Ptolomaic dynasty were the Kings of Egypt back then. I also have a Celtic British coin from the Durotriges tribe, circa 50 BC. And of course lots of Roman from about 70 AD to 400 AD.

[Mousey]

wow, thats old lol. Did you buy them or find them?

[Chris Perkins]

Sort of acquired most of them, from other dealers or as parts of purchased collections.

[Hussulo]

I usually only collect milled but I think my oldest coin is a Celtic O geometric quarter stater.

It's quite a bad scan. It comes under early uninscribed coinage and probably dates to just after 70 B.C.

[Geordie582]

I suppose this Cast Celtic Potin coin is my oldest though I can't tell you much about it except it probably started life in Gaul around 1st century BC.

EA crude face on one side and a pattern of circles on the other. Reputably found in one of the southern counties of England.

Edited August 20, 2008 by Geordie582

[Peter]

As a general rule I classify George 111 onwards as modern coins.

& Pre Charles 11 as getting interesting (ie hammered) although some milled types were occasionally produced.

Your 1928 6d is 50% silver and in its time would of bought quite a lot......interesting in itself (but only as old as my father in law )

[scottishmoney]

I have earlier proto-monies from the Skythian cultures, but this is the earliest that is actually a coin in the strict definition of coin:

Ionia, Miletos 1/12th of a stater, approximately 600 BC, silver and 7mm in diameter, a typically small coin from an era when coins were very very small.