In theory you can find a silver 1858 dime in circulation in Canada, but this wouldn't ever happen.
Switzerland is probably the winner. I have an 1884 20 rappen coin that I was convinced was silver when I bought it ("It's so old!! What a great deal!"), until it stuck to a magnet...
However, some Americans have reported finding "shield nickels" still in use, very rarely. The design is not the same as today's nickel but the specifications are very nearly identical - 1866-2014: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces14852.html
I think I would have to go with a British penny they have been around forever and are still minted today
they have changed size the have changed design recently and in the early 1970 they went to 100 pennies in a pound instead of 240 or what ever it was but you can still take one to the bank and get the decimal equivalent money
This penny has been around longer than most countries.
So... a coin would have to be made in 1854 and still be circulating today to be older than a majority of countries.
I think the British half-penny could take this one home: apparently they are rarely seen pretending to be 2p coins (moving up in the world, from ~0.0021 of a pound to 0.02).
I was going to say the 1780 Maria Theresa Thaler. It should count because the Austrian mint make them.. They become a trade coinage rather than their original purpose but still...
Цитата: Mark240590I was going to say the 1780 Maria Theresa Thaler. It should count because the Austrian mint make them.. They become a trade coinage rather than their original purpose but still...
True, still used nowadays in some Arabian countries (tribal) as trade coinage. After all it is a heavy silver coin, isn't it?
Цитата: Mark240590I was going to say the 1780 Maria Theresa Thaler. It should count because the Austrian mint make them.. They become a trade coinage rather than their original purpose but still...
True, still used nowadays in some Arabian countries (tribal) as trade coinage. After all it is a heavy silver coin, isn't it?
Yes indeed, I say it's most definitely a coin because it is still used, and that's its history, being used.
Taking a break from swapping for a while, but still interested in pre 1799 Spanish coins, I will make time for that!
Not still going now, but the record has to be for the Chinese "Cash coins" These brass or bronze coins were minted in the same form from at least the time of Qin Shang Hunag Di since 221BC right through to the last coin of Pu Yi in 1912 AD. Thats a span of some 2,132 years and these coins are still reminted for Chinese good luck ornaments, money trees and of course all of the creative fakes being minted in China. The same cash style circulated in Korea and Vietnam as well.
The joy of these coins was the fact they were very cheap and had little value, so that finding them is easy. I myself was given several from the Song and Tang Dynasties (608 -1279 AD) and I have a few Korean copies from the time of Emperor Yi (1910AD)
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
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The Swiss franc is the strongest currency since the gold standards were removed from 1914. It has lost 'only' 80% of its purchasing power in the last century. Back then, it took 25 CHF to buy a British Pound and more than 5 CHF for a US Dollar. Now it's worth more than a buck and it's only a matter of time before it will overtake GBP.
I guess Roger Federer was taught early in his career to always immediately convert his winnings into local currency :-)
The British Gold Sovereign dates back to 1489, although since the 1930s has been a bullion coin only.
The Sovereign and its half in the present shape and size (.2345 ounces of 22 carat gold) has been the same minted standard since 1816. That is 203 years. Sovereigns were minted between 1816 and 1932, again as a one off in 1937 for KGVI coronation and then continuously since 1957 for the Arabian market initially and since 1980 as a collectors piece.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Цитата: "til56"I think I would have to go with a British penny they have been around forever and are still minted today
they have changed size the have changed design recently and in the early 1970 they went to 100 pennies in a pound instead of 240 or what ever it was but you can still take one to the bank and get the decimal equivalent money
This penny has been around longer than most countries.
Also the penny has changed many sizes and forms since it was first minted around 770AD for Beohtoric the father of Offa of Mercia.
The decimal penny is worth 2.166667 old pennies.
The copper penny in its last form was only the same size and shape between 1860 and 1970 when it weighed just 9 grams, was 30.5mm in size and made out of Bronze, before that they were copper and weighed 19 grams and were 34 grams in size and so on back.
The first copper penny was in 1797 and weighed 1 ounce (29 grams or so, I don't know ounces being a metric aged person and non American), they shrunk a few times. The New penny of 1971 was merely 20.8mm in size and weighed just 3 grams, its name changed to One Penny in 1980 and is really referred as a penny by name only.
British silver pennies ranged in size and fine ness. Between the 700s and 1300s they were mostly silver and weighed 20 - 24 grains (Barely a gram), several inflation waves and shrinkings in the 14th to 17 th centuries saw it as a tiny coin that weighed about 8 grains and 11mm in size by the late 1600s. It survived as a silver coin in Maundy form until today and weighed 0.42 of a gram and was 11mm in size.
The name penny comes from the Roman denarius and many other European an Asian currencies borrowed the term - denier, denaro, dinar, dirham, pfennig, penni etc.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
