Yet Another Forum Game - Numismatic Go Fish!

Participation points.
1982 Repubblica Italiana.
L.500

What about a link to these Axumite coins?

Regarding Axumite coinage, I do have one, although I am hesitant to attempt to clean it, for fear that there could be gold and I accidentally scrub it off.

Axumite Kingdom, early period
Ca. 300 AD
Aphilas, with Ousanas(?)
Obv: Capped bust of Aphilas, BACIΛI AΦIΛA
Rev: Capped buzt of Ousanas(?) In circle, overlaid in gold leaf, B-ACIΛEYC IAΦIΛAC,



Same type, order of magnitude more expensive than mine, showing the gold inlay:
https://www.cNGCoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=56869

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For the next challenge we'll do one that I think has been done before, but not with the current participants!

Post your oldest coin, banknote, or official token etc that is, as of June 17, 2020, still legal tender. Oldest coin wins!

For the sake of clarity, legal tender means:
- Can use it to buy something from the local grocery/convenience store
- Can use it to pay your taxes
- Can use it to pay a parking ticket
- Can deposit in the bank at face value

It doesn't matter if the average person would insist the coin isn't "good" as long as a lawyer or legal scholar would agree with you.

If the coin is dateless, we will go with the last possible date.

Challenge coin:

179x liberty cap cent lowball, last minted in 1796, 224 years ago, and still legal tender as are all US coins minted since 1793.



Before we rush to post our oldest US coins, I will call out that while the bulk of pre-decimal UK coins were demonetized in 1971, Maundy Money was specifically excluded, as were certain old banknotes and I believe old Sovereigns as well.

Good luck!

Seems to be another challenge for Americans only - be a bit more fairer if international people were allowed to have their category. Will be sitting this out.

1793 cents may be legal - but to redeem one at a penny's worth - you would have to have rocks in your head as they are worth a fortune, even a Wheatie has like 2 cents worth of copper in it. My oldest American coin is only a 1888 Nickel anyway.

I'm not actually sure if crowns had been demonetized. I know that sovereigns and double florins hadn't, but I don't have any of either.

As for Maundy money, my only Maundy coin is from... 1699. There's some debate as to whether all Maundy coins are legal tender, or only the ones from after 1817, so I'm not sure if it would qualify.

I also have some 19th century Swiss coinage that should still be legal tender, but aside from the 1699 Maundy, the oldest, I believe, is this piece of relative crap - with photos to match...



USA, Matron Head cent, ca. 1820-36 (it's not the post-1836 type, but I can't really date it any more precisely).
I sincerely apologize for the terrible pics. My camera at the time really sucked.

For the record, I paid about $3 for it (half of which was postage), and obviously wouldn't spend it as a cent, but mostly only because it's a convenient 7070 hole filler. I doubt it's worth even as much as the $3 I paid.