Whats your oldest coin?

[Ninjafossils]

Now I haven't been hunting very long so my oldest coin was a pathetic date (1939 wheat). Then last week I was at a baseball field that was producing 8 dollars of clad everyday, and stumbled upon this coin. Thinking the brown oxidation was another dime, I cleaned the back to see the familiar "one cent" across the back. I was glad to walk away with one wheat, but since all my clad was >2000 I thought it would be like a fifty. Cleaning it at home revealed a 5 looking shape. But after better cleaning, it revealed to be a 1913! My oldest coin to date. So tell me your story and the person with the oldest coin will get my vote if they ever want to run for presidency.

 

[sagittarius98]

My oldest found coin: 1912 wheat

 

[Coppercrazy]

1895 IH

 

[R&C jensen]

1881 indian head penny

 

[coinsareawesome]

I have not found many coins, but the oldest thing I have found was from 1785 and older!

 

[coinsareawesome]

Good job, buddy!

 

[cosmic]

Oldest american coin 1836 large cent. Also a anceint probably dropped by a school kid taking it in for show and tell phoenician 100-300 bc..

 

[Generic_Lad]

Oldest coin is a 1865 civil war token I found in a roll of pennies.

Oldest coin in my collection is a tetradrachm from Athens dating to the 300s BC

 

[fistfulladirt]

I've dug a over a half-dozen coins dated before 1865. My oldest is a spanish silver dated 1758, dug in an old location here in Michigan.

 

[dennco2000]

I just an 1864 indian head but what's odd I found it near the beaches in Sarasota Florida. Like cosmic said I wonder if some school boy just list it?

 

[hogge]

1616 Sommers Island, Large Porthole 6 pence. AKA-----"Hogge Money"

 

[scott9050]

Oldest coin found was an 1806 half cent found while detecting with my dad back around 1991 at an old house site in North Carolina.
Oldest coin I own is a is silver siglos from the Persian empire dating back to about the 5th century B.C.

 

[moff347]

found a 1910 wheat penny over the weekend in VG condition

 

[Iron Patch]

Late 1500s French silver.

 

[drewbaccas]

1853 dime

Drewbaccas

 

[baddbluff]

1808/7 half. Gift from my father in law.

 

[cjon455]

oldest legible coin 1812 large cent (2 same dates from the same location), i did find a very worn, unidentifiable date draped bust LC though. Date range 1796-1807

 

[TheCoinKid]

US coin - 1803 large cent
Dated coin - 1674 Charles II farthing
Overall - 337-350 Constantine II

Collected, not found.

 

[Trollinboi]

1866 flying eagle cent

 

[Jamesabroad]

Foreign: 1876 Great Britain Penny
US: 1902 Liberty Nickel (found coin roll hunting)