I would have to go with the first choice. It is a silver Roman denarius from 124BC and I love it.
My oldest US coin is an 1876 quarter.

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Q FABIUS LABEO
SILVER DENARIUS
ROMAN REPUBLIC 124BC

Here's my oldest...


4th Century B.C. Pantikapaion
Bronze AE21
6.915g
21.6mm
Obverse bearded head of Pan (or Satyr) to right
Reverse P(Pi not P)A, forepart of griffin left, sturgeon left beneath
S 1700; SNG Cop 30 - 31, MacDonald 69; Anokhim 111; SNG BM Black Sea 869 - 871




For US coins this would be my oldest...

My oldest is a small copper coin that dates from the rule of Valens.

Possibly a incused Greek that I have it's the bottom right one

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Ionia Miletos ca. 600-550 BC is probably my oldest "coin".



Oldest "money" but not specifically "coin", made ca. 650-600 BC.

My oldest coin for the USA is a 1723 Rosa Americana penny - not imaged though.

My oldest coin with USA is this:

my oldest one is this one

Julia Domna:


Gtrzzz Willemo

I have some Roman bronzes from the 3rd or 4th century AD, my oldest modern coin is dated 1587, and my oldest US coin is 200 years old this year!

My oldest is this Scottish Penny:

Alexander III (1249-1286), Penny (1.33g., 19mm; Second Coinage). Obv: Crowned head left; sceptre before. Rev: Voided long cross; mullets of six points and stars of seven points in quarters. Good VF, toned. (Burns 38 (fig. 170); SCBI 35 (Ashmolean & Hunterian), 278; cf. SCBC 5056.)

No ancients for me. (yet), so my oldest is an 1806 British Half-penny.

A 1900 British Penny


Make that a 1855 Five French Centimes

Just curious. Does it have BC after the date or before the date.
Kidding of course. That far back don't think they used English letters.
Did you know it is proper to state BC prior to a date whereas it is proper to put the AD after the date?
I didn't vote. Not sure of the ages of many coins. Really old, foreign, not sure coins just go into a box.

All of a sudden I want to get my hand on at least one ancient.
And sift through Carl's junk box!

I've got a roman bronze coin dated approximately 300 AD

My oldest US coin is somewhere around 1850

My oldest dutch coin is around 1750

My oldest "world" coin is something around 1675

It's not really a junk box though. But there are many, many boxes of 2x2's with coins from all over the world and I have no idea what many are. People have been giving me foreign coins for over 60 years now. Since I don't collect them I have little idea of what most are from, denomination, dates, etc. I just keep putting them in those 2x2's. Some really look old.
The thing I don't understand is why so many countries over the centuries didn't put English on the coins so I could read them.

well, probably because the people in that specific country don't speak english....

Beautiful cent!

Damn I wish I was in your place
O.K then, I was to look through your boxes upon boxes of 2x2's
Maybe if you grope through the Krause you can find some I.D's? I did that today...managed to ID the few coins that needed IDing

Or some of us don't speak English only, I label my Russian coins in Russian, Latin American and Spanish in Spanish.

I label all my coins in American.

0 - 500 A.D. for me.

My oldest is: Gordianus III, Roman Empire, 238-244 A.D

I am just to old to go out and buy a book on foreign coins, to old to try to figure out that many coins, to old to really care. Just for the fun of it after seeing this post I attempted to count how many 2x2's had foreign coins in those boxes and came up with well over 2,000. Then I remembered a plastci box with coins that were to small or to big for a 2x2 so I looked in there. To many to count. I just wonder who will get stuck weeding this all out when I'm gone.

Personally, I'd love to be "stuck" with that!

I have a few ancients but i dont know anythign about them. soo the oldest coin i have a date for is mid 1800s

My 'oldest' coin are two different 1899 coins.
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My oldest is this Greek Tomis, 200-100 BC. Hermes head right (cool hat eh?), Caduceus with wings, TOMEI AOAE (Moushmov 1772, plate III, 30 - thanks to a sharp-eyed collector for help with that attribution).





My oldest "standard" numerical dated coin is this German (Hanau-Munzenberg) 1614, 3 kreuzer.




My oldest US coin is this, barely identifiable, 1798 large cent that I am very proud to have in my collection.




Finally, an honorable mention to this double-struck Constantine I Licinius follis as my oldest error (@310 AD).




Every time I get involved in one of these "your oldest..." threads, I start thinking about trying to put together a one per century set.

Some Greek thing

Thrace, Cherronesos; Hemidrachm, 400-350 BC

Those are the most easily affordable really old coins that pack a lot of bang for the buck. Sometime I want to get more of these, I have one with a bee in the quadrant, and another with grapes, but I really want one with the lizard. There are so many varieties of them and still nobody knows why.

MY Oldest is 1835 Bust Dime

I mostly colect US coins

WOOHOO! Change my vote from 1850 to 0-500 AD, thanks to Blackhawk.

Is the oldest monetary instrument you own a coin or is it just money? I just say this because I own money that is really a coin persay in the definition of a coin.



These were made ca. 650 BC in Olbia Thrace(now Ukraine) and are conjectured to have been offerings or momentos to a god. Later it is believed they were used as money.



The Scythians in what is now Ukraine are conjectured to have traded spearpoints as an early form of money, these are roughly from the same period.

My oldest DATED "coin" is a 1556 "Venus penny" jeton, probably made in Nuremberg, a copy of Burgundian jetons.

I have many undated French/German jetons going back to the 1300's. BobLaw will undoubtedly put me to shame in this category, however; he's got a terrific collection (I have bought some from him on eBay).

Greek Diobol (Thrace) - 450-350 BCE

I guess this Celtic Potin c100-50 BC is my oldest, but I'm still trying to figure out just what it depicts!

My oldest coins are a lot of 9 Ancient Roman Coins.

well mine r 3 persian (maybe or arabian :<) coins they r really old the smallest is half worn out an the 2 others r a bit bigger they look like they r made out of bronze cant quit make out wats written since its written in old arabic/persian an worn out at parts my guess is pre ad got em cheap 2 (i think free as a matter of fact cause the dealers my frnd an he always gives me free stuff with every purchase ) cause the dealer also didnt know anything bout em. My gran says they look like from the gengiskhan era but eh i don know all i know is they olldddd xD

1765 West Frisia Duit