Last month I completed an old goal for my collection: Owning at least one coin from every century since century V BC. This photos show the result obtained with some of the coins I like most in my collection:
It is always exciting when you complete goals. What were the last centuries you acquired?
It is a very nice goal, and a good way to display your collection and show it to people who do not understand much (like all my family and friends). I went to look at my collection and it seems that I completed such a goal as well. I was not 100% sure about the 3 BC or 5-7 AD centuries, but I double-checked and I do have some coins from those periods. Maybe I will make a similar display:) In addition, I have a coin from the 6th cent BC.
Quote: "iiruig"Congratulations, Turi!!
It is always exciting when you complete goals. What were the last centuries you acquired?
It is a very nice goal, and a good way to display your collection and show it to people who do not understand much (like all my family and friends). I went to look at my collection and it seems that I completed such a goal as well. I was not 100% sure about the 3 BC or 5-7 AD centuries, but I double-checked and I do have some coins from those periods. Maybe I will make a similar display:) In addition, I have a coin from the 6th cent BC.
Thanks! This is my next goal. Own coins from the 6th and 7th centuries BC to extend the table.
My last century achieved was 8th century.
Congratulations on reaching such a nice goal, in my collection the dark ages are sadly literally a big dark spot between the fall of the roman empire and the renaissance (except some few byzantine coins)
Yes. I made myself the same questions.
Is it the only coins of 7th and 6th centuries?
If yes is the answer, I cant keep this goal.
I dont collect fake coins.
Wow that is amazing, best I could do is 11 centuries and not all continuous!
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Well done and good coins to represent each Century.
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I loved the idea, and had to check my own collection. 😁
This is mine so far:
6th century BC: ✔️ 5th century BC: ✔️ 4th century BC: ✔️ 3rd century BC: ✔️ 2nd century BC: ✔️ 1st century BC: ✔️ 1st century AD: ✔️ 2nd century AD: ✔️ 3rd century AD: ✔️ 4th century AD: ✔️ 5th century AD: ✔️ 6th century AD: ✔️ 7th century AD: ✔️ 8th century AD: ✔️ 9th century AD: ✔️ 10th century AD: ❌️ 11th century AD: ✔️* 12th century AD: ✔️* 13th century AD: ❌️ 14th century AD: ✔️ 15th century AD: ✔️ 16th century AD: ✔️ 17th century AD: ✔️ 18th century AD: ✔️ 19th century AD: ✔️ 20th century AD: ✔️ 21th century AD: ✔️
I loved the idea, and had to check my own collection. 😁
This is mine so far:
6th century BC: ✔️ 5th century BC: ✔️ 4th century BC: ✔️ 3rd century BC: ✔️ 2nd century BC: ✔️ 1st century BC: ✔️ 1st century AD: ✔️ 2nd century AD: ✔️ 3rd century AD: ✔️ 4th century AD: ✔️ 5th century AD: ✔️ 6th century AD: ✔️ 7th century AD: ✔️ 8th century AD: ✔️ 9th century AD: ✔️ 10th century AD: ❌️ 11th century AD: ✔️* 12th century AD: ✔️* 13th century AD: ❌️ 14th century AD: ✔️ 15th century AD: ✔️ 16th century AD: ✔️ 17th century AD: ✔️ 18th century AD: ✔️ 19th century AD: ✔️ 20th century AD: ✔️ 21th century AD: ✔️
4th century BC - Yes but the coin could be 200 - 400BC
3rd century AD - Yes - Diolcetian 290s
4th century AD - Yes - Constantius II (2 cheap coppers)
9th century AD - Yes - Arab silver dirham
13th century AD - Yes - Egyptian copper falus (Almoravid or Fatimid)
15th century AD - Yes - British silver groat Henry VI 1420s
16th century AD - 7 coins ( 3 shillings and 4 sixpences 1552 - 1594)
17th century AD - 13 coins (Mostly British silver, but one Dutch)
18th century AD - 47 coins (Mostly British)
19th century AD - 800 coins (Global, but many British - some Canadian, American, European countries, Japan)
20th century AD - about 8 - 10000 coins - global
21st century AD - about 1000 - 1500 coins - global
With what I collect, mostly British and commonwealth - cheap coins under $1 are limited to pennies and other copper before 1900. Cheapest medieval coins would be worn pennies and halfpence from Edward I to Edward III (1279 - 1377) and these start at $20 for mutilated ones and $50 for decent ones. You don't see many here.
Occasionally you can buy Roman coppers, which will be worn flat and hard to read or covered in dirt and verdigris for $5 or so each. A decent coin you can read is at least $30. They will always be 3rd century or later. I don't really collect them, the ones I have came in big accumulations or were given to me.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
I loved the idea, and had to check my own collection. 😁
This is mine so far:
6th century BC: ✔️ 5th century BC: ✔️ 4th century BC: ✔️ 3rd century BC: ✔️ 2nd century BC: ✔️ 1st century BC: ✔️ 1st century AD: ✔️ 2nd century AD: ✔️ 3rd century AD: ✔️ 4th century AD: ✔️ 5th century AD: ✔️ 6th century AD: ✔️ 7th century AD: ✔️ 8th century AD: ✔️ 9th century AD: ✔️ 10th century AD: ❌️ 11th century AD: ✔️* 12th century AD: ✔️* 13th century AD: ❌️ 14th century AD: ✔️ 15th century AD: ✔️ 16th century AD: ✔️ 17th century AD: ✔️ 18th century AD: ✔️ 19th century AD: ✔️ 20th century AD: ✔️ 21th century AD: ✔️
Cool! Nice Korea coin! You already have the most difficult centuries in my opinion. 6th century BC, 3rd, 7th and 8th centuries AD.
10th and 13th have many medieval coins available in low prices.
I must say I was a little surprised to have to many centuries.
Yeah, now I just have to find a 10th and a 13th century coin – as well as a 11th or 12th century coin, since I feel like it's cheating to have the same coin for two centuries. 😅
Congrats for the milestone, it's no easy task achieving this.
I don't have this goal, but let me check my collection.
6th century BC: ❌ 5th century BC: ✔️ 4th century BC: ✔️ 3rd century BC: ✔️ 2nd century BC: ✔️ 1st century BC: ✔️ 1st century AD: ✔️ 2nd century AD: ✔️ 3rd century AD: ✔️ 4th century AD: ✔️ 5th century AD: ❌ 6th century AD: ✔️ 7th century AD: ✔️ 8th century AD: ✔️ 9th century AD: ✔️ 10th century AD: ✔️ 11th century AD: ❌ 12th century AD: ✔️ 13th century AD: ✔️ 14th century AD: ✔️ 15th century AD: ✔️ 16th century AD: ✔️ 17th century AD: ✔️ 18th century AD: ✔️ 19th century AD: ✔️ 20th century AD: ✔️ 21th century AD: ✔️
So, I have almost all the centuries, that's nice because I was not aiming at this.
I think the ones I'm missing will come naturally as I continue my collection, for example to get the 5th century AD I would just need a bronze from the last decades of the Roman Empire.
But nevertheless, achieving such a great goal is something to congratulate.
I loved the idea, and had to check my own collection. 😁
This is mine so far:
6th century BC: ✔️ 5th century BC: ✔️ 4th century BC: ✔️ 3rd century BC: ✔️ 2nd century BC: ✔️ 1st century BC: ✔️ 1st century AD: ✔️ 2nd century AD: ✔️ 3rd century AD: ✔️ 4th century AD: ✔️ 5th century AD: ✔️ 6th century AD: ✔️ 7th century AD: ✔️ 8th century AD: ✔️ 9th century AD: ✔️ 10th century AD: ❌️ 11th century AD: ✔️* 12th century AD: ✔️* 13th century AD: ❌️ 14th century AD: ✔️ 15th century AD: ✔️ 16th century AD: ✔️ 17th century AD: ✔️ 18th century AD: ✔️ 19th century AD: ✔️ 20th century AD: ✔️ 21th century AD: ✔️
Amazing stuff, the first millenium centuries between 400 and 999AD are always hard especially 5th and 6th century AD.
Currently I have coins only from the 4th century BC, 3rd and 4th century AD, 9th century AD and then 13th to 21st centuries.
Here is mine
4th century BC - Carthaginian Tetra
Elagabalus - 3rd century AD (My roman coins need severe work!) I have no photos of my Dioceltian or Constantius coins of 4th century)
9th century AD (I think)
13th century - Henry III Penny (c.1253 - 1256), all English British from here on)
14th century - Edward III groat (c.1356 - 1361)
15th century - Henry VI Groat, London (c 1436 - 1439) holed.
16th century (Barely) - Henry VII Gold Angel (Mintmark Pheon 1505 - 1509).
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Continued, showing what I think is the best coin I own of each century.
17th century - Charles II - Half Crown
18th century - George II - Halfcrown 1731
19th century - George IV - Halfcrown 1826
20th century - Gold sovereign set 1989 - Five Pound coin (Largest)
21st century - Black Bull of Clarence, gold one ounce - 2018
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Checking my collection again, I've got something for the 6th century BC (a greek tetartemorion) and the 5th century AD (a gupta drachm), so only the 11th century AD is still missing for me.
Nice timeline sequence Moneytane. Hope someone can read your abbasid dirham to figure out the date. Found a very similar one on Numista catalog, from the end of 8th century AD (perhaps start of 9th century).
Thanks for the kind remarks everyone, its a start, but I seem to be too focussed on the late 2nd millienium AD.
We got close, I think it was between 780 and 820, but I chose 9th century to err on caution.
Giobruno - I think your coin from the 6th century BC is a lot more amazing than anything - thats crazy old.
I mean does anyone have a 7th century BC coin, like say a Lydian stater, or one of those Chinese knife coins.
I will aim to get some ancients this year, as silver prices float into the stratosphere.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
I've been wanting both knife coins and spade coins for years and years, but since there are loads and loads of fakes out there, and their so good even exoerts sometines can't tell the fakes from authentic, I've been really hestitating to get one.
It's still cool though, a lot of those fractional staters and hemiobals, tetartemorions etc are common in the 600 - 450BC era, they survived better than the bigger coins. One of my friends had 2 5th century BC obolettes I identified. One was like 6mm and looked almost like silver shot, but you could see marks on them too.
The other old coin you can get thats really common are the Olbia dolphins, they can be gotten for as little as $15 for a decent one and are all at least 300BC.
Turi's collection though is outstanding, all that history on 1 page! Great coverage too as most of us have a good mix of Greek/Roman and then go dry through the 400 - 1300AD era and then get coins in bulk again.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
My latest purchase has arrived this evening: an italian denier (see the monthly additions thread).
And with that, I have something from all the centuries, 6th century BC till now.
Yes, bought the coin because of this thread. Well, not exactly, but ended being one more reason to pick it.
Congrats, mate!
I am still waiting for my 13th century coin to arrive, and in the meantime I realised I'm missing the 9th century 🫣 as well as I have one coin spanning both the 6th and 7th century (591-628). So, yeah … 😅
Wonder if anyone could get a 7th century BC coin. I mean its possible, some say the Lydian staters started around 625 - 650BC.
Meanwhile I need 6th, 5th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st centuries BC, 1st and 2nd century AD, 5th to 8th centuries and 10th to 12th centuries AD as well.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
I am still waiting for my 13th century coin to arrive, and in the meantime I realised I'm missing the 9th century 🫣 as well as I have one coin spanning both the 6th and 7th century (591-628). So, yeah … 😅
13th century is now in my possession! 😁
Edit: As I suspected, I actually have the 9th century. It had been marked as “Undetermined” for some reason.
