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Posted by tribu on Oct-07-2004 00:59:

Your oldest coin

Today at work, someone paid with a penny from 1929. I promptly switched it out with one of my own, much more recent pennies. I save all the old pennies that read "One Cent" on the back (I actually perfer it aesthetically as well), for basically no reason at all other than I like them. But keeping up with the proud COR tradition of useless posts, I decided to make a post to ask, whats the oldest coin you have or that has come through your posession?

Posted by Radagast on Oct-07-2004 01:07:

When my dad, my brother, and I used to collect coins the oldest coin that I can remember us having right now was a 1919 penny.

Posted by Clovis on Oct-07-2004 01:07:

You're a loser.

Posted by Boomer187 on Oct-07-2004 01:07:

I think....but I have to check, I think I have a 1864 2 cent piece.

Posted by Perfect_Cheezit on Oct-07-2004 01:09:

I have an Edo period coin from 1680 that was a gift to me from my Japanese host brother when I was in Japan last summer

Posted by Clovis on Oct-07-2004 01:10:

My concern is, and I'd have to check with my accountant, that having an extra penny might bump me up into a new tax thing...

Posted by AnotherWay83 on Oct-07-2004 01:50:

i have a coin from 1883 from india, during the reign of queen victoria (i forget which one, or was there only one queen victoria?)

Posted by Zewad on Oct-07-2004 02:13:

1943 or 1944 copper pennies aer worth the most,..

copper was used to make bullets those 2 years,..

Posted by Halcyon+On+On on Oct-07-2004 02:27:

I found an American Indian penny from 1889 at work one night.

That's all.

Posted by KandyKid_420 on Oct-07-2004 02:31:

1792 King Louix (French d00d) - 2 Sols

Posted by klingklang77 on Oct-07-2004 02:56:

quote:
Originally posted by Zewad
1943 or 1944 copper pennies aer worth the most,..

copper was used to make bullets those 2 years,..

do you mean the STEEL pennies? i odnt think they used copper for pennies in 43 or 44....i have a few of them. i have a few sets of the wheat pennies that you are talking of. my grandfather used to collect them, and we got them when he died. umm i have an indian head penny, forget the year. and i think the oldest coin that i have is a nickel from the late 1800s. the date is worn out, but it one of those libery nickels.

the wheat pennies are nice though, i prefer them to the ones we have now.

Posted by Radagast on Oct-07-2004 02:59:

Those steel pennies aren't worth very much at all.

Posted by Zewad on Oct-07-2004 03:38:

its not the steel ones,.. its like a copper penny from a certain mint,.. like some mint that only produced a few,... im not coin guru... just somethign ive heard over the years

Posted by Fundamental on Oct-07-2004 03:40:

Ok, let me check my wallet...

Er... 1977. 1 pence.

Posted by Spartan on Oct-07-2004 03:48:

we've got heirlooms of Confederate coins and bills (1862) that we pass down through the family, after all they'll be good again some day, for the SOUTH Will RISE AGAIN w00t w00t!!

Posted by enferno on Oct-07-2004 03:53:

i have a coin that i put on a lether bracelet of mine that is from islam from 1300's

i'll take a pic tomorrow

Posted by RandomGirl on Oct-07-2004 04:05:

YAY!@!!!@#$!#@

I have a 1893 1 dollar bill from the state of TALLAHASEE!!

WOOOOOOT!

Posted by -=M=- on Oct-07-2004 04:06:

i got a tazo - it says made in 14bc, Aztec

i think mine's older than all yours

Posted by DiMethGuy on Oct-07-2004 04:40:

i am a numismatist...my oldest coin is an ancient greek coin round about 200 b.c. though it's not as valuable as one might think...but i have boatloads of cool coins

Posted by t�bias on Oct-07-2004 05:10:

I have a shell that I paid $100,000 for that comes with a written certificate to prove it was used in 50,000BC as a unit of currency.

Am I now the most popular?

Posted by Zeiter on Oct-07-2004 07:22:

quote:
Originally posted by KandyKid_420
1792 King Louix (French d00d) - 2 Sols

1792...ummm there were no king in that period in france cause the revolution was in 1789...but i might be mistaken!

Posted by fbgdavidson on Oct-07-2004 11:18:

quote:
Originally posted by Radagast
Those steel pennies aren't worth very much at all.

About a penny...

Posted by tu_face on Oct-07-2004 11:54:

i have an 184x (cant remember exact date) penny in a bag of old coins we found at my grandmother's when she died.

quote:
1792...ummm there were no king in that period in france cause the revolution was in 1789...but i might be mistaken!

just because they overthrew the king doesn't mean they swapped the entire mondetory system within 3 years

Posted by JM on Oct-07-2004 16:57:

quote:
Originally posted by klingklang77

the wheat pennies are nice though, i prefer them to the ones we have now.

got a few of those too.... i once found a 1944 Quarter burried in dirt, and it was well weathered and both sides were worn out shiny. I could still read the 1944 on it though.

>JM<

Posted by Vlad on Oct-07-2004 17:06:

quote:
Originally posted by Zewad
1943 or 1944 copper pennies aer worth the most,..

copper was used to make bullets those 2 years,..

Lemme explain this some people might not understand. 1943 Copper pennies are worth the most because there are so few of them. In those times Copper was being used during the war, so instead of Copper, pennies were made in mass production out of Zinc. And there arent many known Copper pennies out there.

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