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Cherry Picker
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Hey Jodo, same year as my oldest american coin.
Jodo_Kast501
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Nice! I was over the moon when I found mine. And I love the capped bust design, especially the reverse.
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North Dakota Gun Shot.
Hello,everyone.
Finally got around to Photographing this old Find.
I was Hunting a Site where a Cabin had Burned down, somewhere in Southern North Dakota,it was grouped in with some other Keepsakes about 3-4 Inches down in Frozen Soil as if it were in a little Trinket Box that had burned.There was a little Enameled Pin that said something like "Never Tardy for School" and some other Personal Trinkets.On the inside are traces of Lead as if from some Sharpshooters Bullet.I bet it could tell a little Story.It's 1887.
Hello,everyone.
Finally got around to Photographing this old Find.
I was Hunting a Site where a Cabin had Burned down, somewhere in Southern North Dakota,it was grouped in with some other Keepsakes about 3-4 Inches down in Frozen Soil as if it were in a little Trinket Box that had burned.There was a little Enameled Pin that said something like "Never Tardy for School" and some other Personal Trinkets.On the inside are traces of Lead as if from some Sharpshooters Bullet.I bet it could tell a little Story.It's 1887.
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achaios
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My oldest one is either a 1/12 stater from Miletos, which could date back to 600BCE, but was minted for a couple of centuries, or a siglos of King Croisus, dating back to around 561 BCE. They weren't detector finds, though.
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-- Tom
These are my oldest so far. They are Chinese coins but I found them in Japan. Until the early 1600's Japan used cash coins from China to use as currency.
These are fused together so the must have been part of a string of coins that someone lost. Coins were carried on strings of 100 so you sometimes find clumps of coins stuck together.
The top picture is Kai-Yuan Tung Pao (read Kaitsu Genhou in Japanese). They were minted from 621-907. Some have characters on the reverse that could help narrow down the date but I don't want to break them apart.
The bottom picture is a Chien-Yuan Chung Pao from 760.
These are fused together so the must have been part of a string of coins that someone lost. Coins were carried on strings of 100 so you sometimes find clumps of coins stuck together.
The top picture is Kai-Yuan Tung Pao (read Kaitsu Genhou in Japanese). They were minted from 621-907. Some have characters on the reverse that could help narrow down the date but I don't want to break them apart.
The bottom picture is a Chien-Yuan Chung Pao from 760.
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jerrycoastalnc
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I had never thought about going by decades, had to do some research. I have every decade covered back to the 1720's. The 1790's is U.S. Large Cents. The 1780's, 1770's, and 1760's is reale's. The 1750- 1720's is British and Irish coppers. HH Jerry
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