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?
Oct-07-2004 00:59
Radagast
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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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Oct-07-2004 01:07
Clovis
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You're a loser.
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Oct-07-2004 01:07
Boomer187
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Location: USA
I think....but I have to check, I think I have a 1864 2 cent piece.
Oct-07-2004 01:07
Perfect_Cheezit
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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
Oct-07-2004 01:09
Clovis
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Location: Los Angeles
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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Oct-07-2004 01:10
AnotherWay83
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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: land of d(-_-)b
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?)
Oct-07-2004 01:50
Zewad
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1943 or 1944 copper pennies aer worth the most,..
copper was used to make bullets those 2 years,..
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Oct-07-2004 02:13
Halcyon+On+On
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I found an American Indian penny from 1889 at work one night.
That's all.
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Oct-07-2004 02:27
KandyKid_420
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Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Vancouver
1792 King Louix (French d00d) - 2 Sols
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Oct-07-2004 02:31
klingklang77
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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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Oct-07-2004 02:56
Radagast
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Those steel pennies aren't worth very much at all.
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