How Far Back Can We Go? Fourth Edition! Ended At 1461 Waiting On 1460 C. E. (A. H. 864)

@louie, this thread may be of some interest: http://goccf.com/t/278425

I think I got mine off ebay or perhaps Amazon. There are some coin book sellers on vcoins, too.

I generally stick to newer coins (1480s and 1490s) from the Delhi Sultanate, where the dates are written islamic numerals (but a little different than the modern ones). The biggest problem is that perhaps 95% of the time the date is at least partly off flan, or ambiguous (sometimes the middle digit can actually be the first, for example).
Other times, the seller lists the coin with a particular date, but it sure looks like something different to me.

I've Emailed with a few European dealers over the years and the most
popular ways of collecting the early dated coins are either by date,
region or country. Here in America, there have been two or three collectors
who had early dated holdings but I'm not sure if they had other areas that they
concentrated on. One that comes to mind was auctioned by CNG several years
ago. The Rye collection. I've spoke with Dr. Howard Minners two years ago and
his collection early dated coins consists mainly of pre-1425 Aachen, two pieces
for each date!! The only date he and others are missing are1410. My main intention
of asking if there are other collectors who collect like I do or if they have, and they do,
a much broader collection. I've thought about broadening my focus to include regnal
dated Byzantine bronze and gold coinage.The two big drawbacks are budget and one
or two early dated pieces coming up for auction.
Far and away one of the deepest collections I have seen on the net belongs to @Spence.
A very nice and well rounded collection that I have seen so far. @EddieDiz and @tdziemia
also have posted some remarkable coins as well as @1c5d7n5m. Thanks for letting me
take up space here and your time.

@1c5d7n5m and @Petrus Since both of you list Belgium
as your home country, can you recommend any coin dealers
who might handle Early Dated coins. Thanks

Nice coins for 1474!



@louie, Jean Elsen & Sons is one with whom a few of us have experience: http://www.elsen.eu/ Most of my early dated Brabant coins have come from them, starting when I lived in Brussels in the late 1990s, but they are specialists in all the low countries (so, Brabant, Flanders, Liege, Hainaut, Netherlands, etc.). They have quarterly auctions, and also publish a quarterly list of things they have on hand outside of the auctions.

There was an immense collection of medieval coins of the Low Countries that came up for auction at Kunker earlier this year, including more early dated Brabant coins than I have seen in any single auction. Most dates between 1475 and 1498 were covered. This may have been a "one-off." Not sure how many eary dated coins they see on a regular basis. https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=sale&sid=2584
I think I've seen early dated coins of Austria at the H.D. Rauch auctions. Those are probably obvious choices, so maybe they are among the ones you've already contacted.

A bit of a dog but it has a decent looking date.

My only 1473 dated piece. I've bid on two other pieces
over the years, but unsuccessfully.