One really old coin...

[GunarSailors]

This past summer while on vacation in Denmark, my father in law broke out his coin collection. This is the oldest coin he has. Its a Danish coin from 1622. You have to wonder how many pockets this thing has been in. What is the oldest thing that you own?

 

[arjay]

Very cool!
Somewhere around here is a barometer that had been on my great, great grandfathers ship dated 1660.

 

[GunarSailors]

Somewhere around here is a barometer that had been on my great grandfathers ship dated 1660.

Nice!!! Have you done anything on Ancestry dot com to get more documentation on him? My mom is in the process of doing the saliva DNA kits from Ancestry dot com because she is sure we are related to http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Billington,who came over on the Mayflower. She also thinks we are related to a General Sumpter from South Carolina. We will see. You should post pictures of that barometer if you ever come across it. I would love to see it. I like things that are old.

 

[OLDNAVYMCPO]

I'm packing for a trip and am not willing to dig it out but somewhere in my coin collection I supposedly have a coin from the Jewish revolt over the Romans from 70-71 AD. I say supposedly because I paid a good amount for it some years ago and through all my research it appears to be legit but I can't be positive without paying a substantial fee to have it verified.

 

[rwsmith]

That would be great......

I'll bet you can crook the gumball machine with that.



Just Kidding!

 

[arjay]

Nice!!! Have you done anything on Ancestry dot com to get more documentation on him? My mom is in the process of doing the saliva DNA kits from Ancestry dot com because she is sure we are related to http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Billington,who came over on the Mayflower. She also thinks we are related to a General Sumpter from South Carolina. We will see. You should post pictures of that barometer if you ever come across it. I would love to see it. I like things that are old.

I haven't yet,but I just learned it was my gg grandfathers ship and my grandmother had sailed with him to Canada to visit her brother who had emigrated from Scotland.It seems that side of my family has been going back and forth between North America and Scotland for generations lol

 

[CaptRon956]

because she is sure we are related to John Billington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia,who came over on the Mayflower.

Jeez, the guy was hanged... Any idea's why?

I'm also related to someone off the Mayflower except I'm not sure who but my father knows, I'll have to ask him...

 

[GunarSailors]

Jeez, the guy was hanged... Any idea's why?

I'm also related to someone off the Mayflower except I'm not sure who but my father knows, I'll have to ask him...

Yes, because he killed another settler for some reason or another... convicted of murder I think. More interesting, his son almost blew the Mayflower up over an accidental discharge of a firearm near a barrel of gun powder. There was apparently a small fire because of it. That would have changed history. You know that would really be messed up if my relative from the Mayflower killed your relative from the Mayflower...

 

[Texas Star]

My oldest coins are probably some that my father got on Okinawa in 1945. I think some are Japanese and some Chinese. Probably no real value.

My oldest thing is probably the .410 single shot that was my grandfather's before he gave it to me at age 6. Probably dates to at least 1930, maybe older. Next oldest is probably my late parents' silverware. But I do have a photo of me at about age 2.

If you read Ian Fleming's, "Live and Let Die" (much better than the movie), there's a good discussion of coins that'd have been in the pirate Bloody Morgan's treasure. I found it quite interesting. If you read the book with a .25 Beretta at hand, a Fairbairn-Sykes commando dagger by it, and while wearing a Rolex watch, it's even more enjoyable.

 

[CaptRon956]

Yes, because he killed another settler for some reason or another... convicted of murder I think. More interesting, his son almost blew the Mayflower up over an accidental discharge of a firearm near a barrel of gun powder. There was apparently a small fire because of it. That would have changed history. You know that would really be messed up if my relative from the Mayflower killed your relative from the Mayflower...

And then 400 yrs later their offspring are having a online discussion about gun safety & how one of their great great great great grandad's almost blew up the Mayflower cause he forgot his musket was loaded...

 

[GunarSailors]

And then 400 yrs later their offspring are having a online discussion about gun safety & how one of their great great great great grandad's almost blew up the Mayflower cause he forgot his musket was loaded...

There is no doubt at all that if our relatives came over on the Mayflower together with their families, they knew each other. I bet that was a very unpleasant journey, and especially that first winter once they got here. Please find out your relatives name.

 

[CaptRon956]

There is no doubt at all that if our relatives came over on the Mayflower, they knew each other. Please find out your relatives name.

I'll have to call my father & ask, he lives out of state. But as soon as I'll find out I'll get back to you..

 

[Alpo]

My oldest coins are probably some that my father got on Okinawa in 1945. I think some are Japanese and some Chinese. Probably no real value.

My oldest thing is probably the .410 single shot that was my grandfather's before he gave it to me at age 6. Probably dates to at least 1930, maybe older. Next oldest is probably my late parents' silverware. But I do have a photo of me at about age 2.

If you read Ian Fleming's, "Live and Let Die" (much better than the movie), there's a good discussion of coins that'd have been in the pirate Bloody Morgan's treasure. I found it quite interesting. If you read the book with a .25 Beretta at hand, a Fairbairn-Sykes commando dagger by it, and while wearing a Rolex watch, it's even more enjoyable.

Unfortunately, while I have the gun, the knife and the book, I don't have the Rolex.

Oldest thing I have is a firearm - either a 38SA 2nd model from between 1887 and 1891, a Husqvarna 16 gauge shotgun that dates "prior to 1884", or an 1881 DA 44 Russian. No "precise" dates on any of the three.



edit: date typo. 1877 on that 38, not 1887

 

[hoc9sw]

Now I have to look, probably a trip to the safe deposit box. There is a Roman coin, but that doesn't count, since they dig those up all over Europe by the barrels.

A small coin from Caracas when it was just a Spanish settlement, and a coin from the old settlements that are now the area of Prague. Both given to me by local folks who had heard I collected coins. Maybe neither of the two that old, but that is the kind of thing I would search for on the weekends when on TDY.

 

[boatme99]

Once upon a time, I had a Roman coin. An owl on the reverse, an emperor (I forget which) on the obverse.

Back in the '60s-'70s, there apparently was a glut of them on the market. You could get them for a few bucks, as I remember.

I gave it to a high school girlfriend.

I think it was a fair trade.

 

[bushmaster1313]

I have a coin like this one, but not museum quality.

I am able to read on my coin ANTIOXOY EPIPHANOY

Making him the Antiochus IV of the Selucid Dynasty

 

[Cyrano]

Right off the top of my head, the oldest thing I have is a British penny from the reign of George III. I bought it while in England and gave it to my wife who was a real English Hisory enthusiast.

 

[boatme99]

I have a coin like this one, but not museum quality.

I am able to read on my coin ANTIOXOY EPIPHANOY

Making him the Antiochus IV of the Selucid Dynasty

Ah, yes. Antiochus IV Epiphanes. The "Eleventh Horn Of The Beast".

His two legacies, a historical smack down of the Maccabbees and the Parthians about 164 BC, and leaving his name to a decent boat varnish.

 

[Kernel Crittenden]

What is the oldest thing that you own?

I have a Trilobite fossil that's 250 million years old.

Someone told me they're extinct.... but it smells fine to me.

 

[Frank46]

I only have two old coins. One roman that I do not remember where I got it and would have to dig it out to try and date it. the other is a I bugin rectangular coin I picked up in Japan some 40 odd years ago. dates back to between the 1820's to the 1860's and is composed of gold.silver and tin. Frank