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I just meant some members have coins a millenium older than my oldest. Yes, but I meant it too, as many people only have oldest coins going back to like 1820 or so and your oldest coins are medieval. I know quite a few have ancient coins too, but there are many collectors here with collections focusing mostly on the past 200 years like me, even though I show much older pieces. And your collection judging by your posts is just amazing - most of it seems to date from the 1500s and 1600s which is great. |
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Bust 1827 Quarter is my Oldest Coin   |
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King Edward I 1272-1307   |
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Nice examples!  |
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LYDIAN KINGDOM. Alyattes or Walwet (ca. 610-546 BC). EL sixth-stater or hecte (10mm, 2.35 gm). Uninscribed, Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes mint. Head of lion right, mouth open, mane bristling, radiate globule above eye / Two square punches of different size, side by side, with irregular interior surfaces. Weidauer 76-8. Boston 1769. Not sure how much further back one can go barring updated scholarship.   IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Like the Lydia coin! Can't get much older than that!!!
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Outstanding! |
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Brilliant Lydia coin, detail is superb!
The Ox moves slowly, but the Earth is patient.
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NS, that's a hard one to top! Congrats.
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