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Really fantastic coins being posted here - wow! I've got a couple more identified, but they don't hold a candle to the other beauties here.
German States - Archbishopric of Mainz 1 Albus 1670
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Province of Holland 1 Stuiver 1738. Called a "Bezemstuiver" because the bundle of arrows resembled a broom.
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Very nice examples!
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Here are my oldest AH-dated coins

Delhi Sultanate 6 gani AH 725 (1325 CE)
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Golden Horde pul Qrim mint AH 725
Here's the Numista link so you can see what it looks like.
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Very nice, bd251!
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Outstanding pair!
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I purchased this coin just this past June. It's now my earliest dated coin.
1478 Southern Netherlands-Flanders. Double Briquet, Bruges mint, Mary of Burgundy.

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Nice addition, Finn70!
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I purchased this coin just this past June. It's now my earliest dated coin. 1478 Southern Netherlands-Flanders. Double Briquet, Bruges mint, Mary of Burgundy.
Outstanding!
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My oldest dated coin is this schilling from the Polish-
Lithuanian Commonwealth dated 1586

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Too bad about the hole.
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Love the coins being shown.
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Reacting to the excellent post by @Sap that's now nearly 2 years old ...

The 1424 St. Gallen coin that is the earliest in this category is out of range of most collectors:
https://www.numisbids.com/sale/282/lot/?lot=47

I think that "accessible" (low to mid 3-figure prices) dated coins like we are talking about here started in the late 1450s in Austria:
https://www.numisbids.com/sale/3368/lot/?lot=1769

My earliest with modern numerals is this 1474 2 stuiver ("dubbele vuurijzer") of Flanders, like the coin Finn70 posted, but one ruler earlier. IN addition to a pair of those old-style 4s, it's got a rotated 7 as well:
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I'm pretty sure @spence has something 10 to 15 years earlier from central Europe..


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