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What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:31 pmby scyther
What's the oldest coin that you've found in circulation? For a while mine was a 1917. Then I found a 1913. That was like 2 months ago, and I still haven't found anything older.
I only sort pennies so far, but you can list whatever kind of coins you want.
Re: What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:56 pmby RD5
1927
wish it was 1909
Re: What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:23 pmby twentybux
1902 Liberty V nickel
Re: What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:24 pmby henrysmedford
mtalbot_ca found a 1587 Double Tournois - French coin see--
http://www.realcent.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=6527
Re: What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:56 pmby hirbonzig
Found a Draped Bust Large Cent in a bag of half dollars a few years back. It's pretty worn, but if I hold it just right it looks to be dated 1801.
Re: What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:58 pmby mtalbot_ca
It was indeed an incredible find. I did not sleep for two nights following that discovery.
Re: What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:57 pmby Diggin4copper
Coronet Large Cent in a bag of halves..
Re: What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Tue Jul 31, 2012 9:41 pmby Sheba
Indian Head ... mid to late 1880s ... long time back, can't remember date for sure.
Re: What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:32 pmby HoardCopperByTheTon
I can't get bags where I am.. so everything is in rolls. Oldest I have found in circulation was an 1859 Indian.
Re: What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:34 pmby Thogey
02 IHC
Re: What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:57 pmby jacer333
Can't recall the date here either, but mine would be a 1860's IHC
Re: What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Wed Aug 01, 2012 12:00 amby penny pretty
a 1914. and that was in a rydale sorted CTU I bought on ebay before I started sorting myself!
Re: What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Wed Aug 01, 2012 1:18 amby RichardPenny43
1905 IHC
Slick ______
Re: What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Wed Aug 01, 2012 5:07 amby bazmonkey
Heh, just found an 1897 IHC...
Re: What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Wed Aug 01, 2012 8:51 amby Spikeanator6982
1858 flying eagle cent
Re: What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Wed Aug 01, 2012 12:32 pmby creshka46
1910 wheat penny
I also found dateless V nickel that could be older
Re: What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Wed Aug 01, 2012 6:46 pmby chris6084
1819 Spanish Real. Silver in a penny roll. And it was in better shape than ones I saw on ebay. I was pretty happy.
Re: What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Wed Aug 01, 2012 11:25 pmby Chief
1885 Austrian 1 Kreuzer
ETA: penny roll
Re: What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Mon Aug 06, 2012 10:00 pmby drummermatt
Just last week, I found an 1881 three-cent nickel (but the size of a dime) called a "trime" in the reject chute of the TD Bank coin machine. Looks like someone didn't check their pocket change closely enough!
Re: What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:20 amby TJMatt
Found a 1914 wheatie a few weeks back in the reject pile from my Ryedale!
TJ
Re: What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Sat Sep 08, 2012 5:24 pmby scyther
scyther wrote:For a while mine was a 1917. Then I found a 1913. That was like 2 months ago, and I still haven't found anything older.
Last night I found a 1911. Sadly it's quite dirty and corroded, but the date's intact.
Re: What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Sat Sep 08, 2012 5:38 pmby tinhorn
1857 Flying Eagle Cent. It's pretty ugly.
Re: What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Sat Sep 08, 2012 7:34 pmby cuppoor
1891 IH cent from Wednesday's tribe find is now my oldest.
Re: What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Sun Sep 09, 2012 3:19 pmby Dano
1878 Morgan, along with 16 others in 2 rolls of large dollars.
Re: What's the oldest coin you've found?
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Sun Sep 09, 2012 3:36 pmby knibloe
Dano wrote:1878 Morgan, along with 16 others in 2 rolls of large dollars.
I think that this needs to be posted in the bragging thread. Congrats.