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?

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.

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Originally posted by ******** Seplling don't demonstrate intelligence and educatoin - knowing does.

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

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

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...

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Originally posted by ******** Seplling don't demonstrate intelligence and educatoin - knowing does.

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?)

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

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

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

That's all.

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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.

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

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