What Is Your Oldest Coin?

I have this Alexandrian drachm though I have some other ancient Greek that (as I remember) are older. It's the only one for which I have a handy photo.

My collection is exclusively ancients (mostly Roman)/some medieval. Here is the oldest I've got: a Carthaginian bronze coin featuring the goddess Tanit on the obverse (obverse pic kind of sucks. I plan to reshoot it in the future), and a horse galloping on the reverse. Minted sometime in the early 4th century BC.



My oldest silver: Roman Republic denarius minted in 86 BC, under the moneyer L. Rubrius Dossenus, Rome mint:

Nice coins guys!
Metzger, I know of a good trusted dealer on ebay, who sells coins from the 1700's-1800's for very cheap.
And this would make up a good start for you.
Here is the link to his store:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/joecoins1/m...047675.l2562
Just format the price so only a maximum of 3$ per coins appear, and the magic begins :)
I have even taken ancients, medievals, and moderns to coin experts and had them authenticated.
So I can concluded the authenticity of his coins as positive :)

Technically, my current oldest "coin" is a yet-unattributed Olbia dolphin, circa 5th-4th century BC. I'm not sure if it csn be really considered as a coin though.
Next after it is a coin from Pantikapaion (sp?), circa late 3rd century BC if I attributed it correctly. It's certainly a coin, and it's certainly older than anything else I have (other than the dolphin one); but I'm not even sure what's the denomination.
Oldest dated, as well as oldest silver, is an 1517 Zweier from the Archbishopric of Salzburg; I have a few Russian wire kopeks that look a lot more archaic, but the oldest of these is from the 1530s.

In case you wonder why no pics: pics of the two ancients are in the "bought a few ancients" thread, but they're too huge and/or too awful to really work here; and as for the Zweier, I just got it last Saturday (as in June 22nd), so I didn't yet have time to get a pic of it only cost me $15 by the way.


...On the guy in Pharoew's post: he seems to think that "high grade" means VF and above, and occasionally even lower (seriously, I've seen an "unidentified High Grade coin" somewhere in there). The 1872 "shouldn't it be post-unification?" Mecklenburg-Schwerin 5 pfennig coin is really interesting though... shame that I don't have an ebay account!

No probs :)

OUTSTANDING!

Not "old" in the scheme of things posted here, but this is the earliest date I have:

Okay, so I was up at the farm and taking a look through my collection so I could catalog some more of it. I got the date and price I paid for the large cent wrong, having based my previous post on memory: 1808, paid $6. Still fair to AG-3, I would guess. Very faint what can still be seen of the date.