Ancient Coins: The FIRST Coin

My oldest coin is an Obol from Miletus, late 6th-5th Centuries BC

Fuh oldest coin only about the reign of hadrian

My oldest coin is a bronze piece from the area of Phalanna in Thessaly - mid 4th century BC.

My oldest coin is a 4th Century BC Gorgon Hemidrachm from Mysia (Parium)

Very interesting video. My oldest coins are my Athenian Owl, my Alexander III Lifetime Issue Tet and my Lysimachos Tet, in that order.

Nice! My oldest coin is a 1923 peace dollar. It’s worn almost smooth. My Dad told me his uncle would always carry a “pocket silver”. No way for me varify it’s the same one his uncle had. Idea: 💡Can you do a YT post about this old tradition of a “pocket silver”? It might be interesting. Thanks. ✌🏻❤️🇺🇸🥈

My oldest was minted in the Late 6th or Early 5th Century BC

It’s incredible how these coins chronicle our history as a species

Damn imagine being so bad at PR that you still get called out almost 4000 years later!
Great video once again! :P
My oldest one is a silver diobol from Macedonia around 5th century BC!

Great Video no coins but a WW1Bronze 1918 Death Placque that has an image of Britannia and the name of my great Uncle Albert Redmile. Cheers

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My oldest is an Aegina silver Turtle Stater 5th century BC

My oldest coin is a buffalo nickel. The date has been worn off, so I assume it's somewhere between 1913 to 1938.

Prussian Coin from 1893

How does one differentiate under whom Croesied Staters were stuck under? Croesus vs Cyrus II? Thanks to anyone who can educate.

The oldest piece in my collection is an 1896 (P) BU Morgan dollar

Oldest coin is a silver drachm of Alexander the Great

Oldest? An Olbian (Greek) bronze Dolphin, 5th-4th Century BCE. Also, I never realized what the "punch" mark on the Lydian issues was for; in fact, it serves the same function as Chinese "chop" marks, used by merchants accepting coins to verify their legitimacy (very important in a culture rife with counterfeits of everything of value). =^[.]^=

My oldest is an Amorican stater from around 80 BC

The initial coins like this hecte are described as "typeless" (blanks) with a complex or simple punch incuse on the reverse. Then later likely came the "striated" type coin, which Joe Linzalone (wrote 'ELECTRUM and The Invention of Coinage') reports as the first true coins with an obverse type. The pebble or pelleted trite is presented in vol 1 page 240 #78 of M. Mitchiner's book 'Ancient Trade and Early Coinage' (for reference).

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Incredibly well structured and rich information. A very good video that deserves attention.

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I only have one coin but its from around 210 BC

I have a Taras, mintend in Taranto. I think 2 sec. b.C.

Moreover, the coin was surely a fake of the time.

My oldest coin is a trajan denarius, been thinking of splurging and buying an Athenian owl tetradrachm to take the new oldest coin spot.

I need to show you some amazing coinage

I think china had gold silver copper coins

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My earliest coin is a Lydian silver lion/bull piece. I don't know if it is a Stater or a division thereof. I don't know either if it is Lydian or early Persian, but I watched your "detect fakes" video and believe it is genuine. Thank you for this video. I already knew what you said in it, but you expressed it very clearly and very well.

My oldest piece is an Olbian dolphin cica 500BC. I have some Celtic "ring money", but the date is unknown and can be widley varied and whether it is proto money at all is still being debated.

What about the early Indian punch-marked coins? I believe they are contenders as well.

This is a coin that I have in my collection, unfortunately it cost a lot.

I'm a helper so my first payment was 3 and 4 coins after I asked how I did you couldn't figure out what gender I was cuz I technically have both I'm a male so I get paid more because it's hard to re-stitch The phallic. Four coins from the first civilization that I was a part of plus interest means I'm at least 10 mil a day that's being really really generous pay up. Psychic escort service. I also do rent a friend something totally different I just sit there and look pretty watch TV movies TV shows basically everything a friend should do if you don't have any.

I still have my first 3 and four quarters. I tried to spend them on a soda but they came back!

I like to imagine the bumpy surface is to add grip. They’re so small and smooth they must have been dropping them all the time!

ty Im a master student at preserving material heritage and this helps a lot in my work where I study ancient coins, i searched for phenician coins and this was on the top of the list and its a great background info

I just bought myself a blank 1/12th stater from Ionia!!!!! Definitely the oldest coin I own now in my collection. What a piece of history. ❤

Yo mama so old this was her allowance

My oldest (if a "coin") would be a Chinese Warring States arrowhead from as early as 476 BC (through to 221 BC). I've seen comments that these were used as "money" but do you know if there are any references to back that up please? (EG my main Chinese reference - Cast Chinese Coins by David Hartill mentions cowrie shells and ant-nose money, then knife and spade money - no mention of arrowheads used in trade)

I believed china probably had coins well before us in the western and Middle East

Question so would people come to the state with there nuggets and ask them to convert it to standardized gold nugget or were they issued somehow?

My earliest coin (probably) is an Indian punchmarked bent bar weighing 11.3gr and I also have the fraction 1/8 of 1.4gr. Indus Civilisation, ca 500 BC. Fascinating proto-coins and little-known in the west!

Precious metals like gold, silver and platinum work best as a measure, store and transfer of value but government monopolies always force fiat on the ignorant populations until their civilizations crumble.

The second “coin” looks like a dude with a staff