I just bought a coin around about 400 years old for 8 euros [solved]

I just bought a coin from 1775 for 8 euros why do you think so cheap

can be cheap, can be expensive…. depends…

1775 + 400 = ?

Around about 400

248 years.

Anyway, 8 euros is about right for this coin/condition.

https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/russia-denga-c-56.2-1763-1796-cuid-1094927-duid-1572295

I think it is an ok price for it. Not all old coins are expensive, I got this one for $3.44 in 2020 in G condition, which is 2,400 years old, and I have a few more under $8 from BC.

N#48859

I have plenty of 300-700 years old coins with the value below $10 (also available for swap😉), e.g. Golden Horde, Riga, Livonia, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Russian wire coins… There are plenty of areas where you can make a collection of relatively cheap coins that cost lower then modern commemorative 2 EUR, and each coin would be unique because you can't make 2 absolutely similar hammered coins.

AdomavicGoods, you are from Latvia where XVII century solidi shall be available for similar price even in quite good conditions:)

You can get many old coins for cheap prices.

Worn and mostly unidentifiable Roman coppers can be had for a $1 - $2 each, they will be small, lump like and unreadable and almost certainly a 3rd century ruler or some variant of a Constantian from the 4th century. But they are old. Classic Republican and 1st/2nd century AD coins cost more and so does any silver. They were minted in the billions and many hoarded or buried in the instability of the late 4th and early 5th centuries.

Hungarian Denars and Lithuanian half groats in lower grades are always cheap as they are small coins, lots of them and had wide usage. Most are 16th or 17th century.

Many Arab copper coins of the 10th - 15th century are cheap too, like the wire money of Russia

Chinese cash coins from the Song and Tang dynasty (600s - 1200s) can be very cheap too.

British world - generally nothing that cheap until the 19th century, although pennies of Edward I - III from 1280 to 1370 can be as cheap as $25 each, cut up ones cheaper.

The arrival of machine made coins and low value copper/bronze coins in the mid 19th century, saw an explosion of affordable types like French 5 and 10 centimes from Louis Napoleon, British bun pence, American pennies after 1890, Indian anna and pice coins, Chinese cash again and various low value base metal coins from Hispanic countries also became affordable and widely used.

I find old worn coins more fun and value than modern overpriced NCLT!

I got this coins for the equivalent of 0.94 €: N#247280