coin Ivan the Terrible ( Russia 1562)
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Great find. Congrats......
Big Treble
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That's cool, nice dig, congrats!
JTW
Senior Member
That's just too cool!!!
bobac
Elite Member
Amazing!!!!
That is just incredible !!!!!
Nice score!!!!!
And oh yeah , that beats my oldest coin by about 300 years....
That is just incredible !!!!!
Nice score!!!!!
And oh yeah , that beats my oldest coin by about 300 years....
Toewe
Full Member
I Call BS. That has to be a fake. 450 years old - no way. Nice try though.
joee5
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wrldtrker
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Prior to calling BS perhaps a little researh and history leasson would be in order. Finds of this type are more common than you think in europe. Iron and bronze age predate roman settlements in the area. The oldest coin i have found in europe was in germany - a 54 bc roman sestarus. It was dated by an arheologist. That makes it 2070 years old . I have a post and pic of it on this site. 500 year old coins, While unfathimable to you are not so rare or un heard of in europe.
borispriva
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Russian name - is "fish scale", just because these silver coins resemble the fish scales.
But in reality it might be "denga", which is half-kopeck, if we are talking denomination here.
it also could be "polushka", which is a quarter of kopeck.
I just have no time right now to look it up and give you an exact answer.
I dug one like this too when I was in Russia couple of years ago - http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=222024
Later "denga" coins were usually made from copper, I have pictures of couple of them from XVIII century in my post "Digging in Siberia".
Robban98422
Junior Member
wow nice find, i guess you found it somewhere i russia ?
300 years older then my oldest lol ^^
300 years older then my oldest lol ^^
Beach Bum
Elite Member
and to think, I get excited when I find something pre-1965
MrNovice
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whatever it is real or fake find, it's still pretty cool! I'd be totally stoked finding anything that old! And I would hit that spot so hard for at least a month straight...
cellrdwellr
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Very nice!!! My oldest coin is a 169* King William III. What is the size of the coin? Happy hunting!
CyrilliumOH
Full Member
Super neat congrats
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zach66604
Elite Member
Did you wash it off, or is that how it popped out of the ground? Looks really nice.
