How far back can YOU go?

Quote: "druzhynets"​ I stop at 2015

Quote: "CassTaylor"​

Quote: "druzhynets"​ I stop at 2015

​​Don't feel too bad, I didn't have my 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 until just a few weeks ago.
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​In fact, my own 2015 I fished out of a fountain, but only because I saw it was a commemorative 2€ (who throws 2€ coins into fountains?!)

Quote: "Jarcek"​How do you check such thing?

Quote: "phfoticus"​2018 back to 1498, with no gaps. After that, only a few scattered years (year with greatest overlap shown for non-AD-dated coins):
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​ 1492
​ 1426
​ 733
​ 214
​ 149
​ 80
​ -62
​ -151

Quote: "druzhynets"​

Quote: "CassTaylor"​
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Quote: "druzhynets"​ I stop at 2015

​​​Don't feel too bad, I didn't have my 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 until just a few weeks ago.
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​​In fact, my own 2015 I fished out of a fountain, but only because I saw it was a commemorative 2€ (who throws 2€ coins into fountains?!)

​​It was a joke, Sophie :)

Quote: "Subha Barua"​Without gaps, I can stretch up to 1500, withsome exceptions quickly to be filled.

Quote: "SquareRootLolly"​1963.
​I don't collect by year, also my collection is too humble.

Quote: "Quant-Geek"​Unless I have pocket change, I can't even go to 2017...

Quote: "Jesse11"​I go back to 1851, and then I'm missing 1850 and it gets patchy after that. I was surprised that it goes this far back unbroken, there are a fair number of dates where I only have one coin for that date.

Quote: "Subha Barua"​Without gaps, I can stretch up to 1500, withsome exceptions quickly to be filled.

Quote: "Giobruno"​2018 to 1913 (if you consider that FIFA Soccer World Cup roubles as 2018), and gaps of 1-3 years between 1913 and 1849. After this there are a few coins between 1700 and 1850, one 1600's, one late Roman and one early Byzantine.
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​Edit.: changed 1916 to 1913 since I got a 1915 coin.

Quote: "CassTaylor"​Just a little annex to the 'How far back can we go' thread on Numista that I started six months ago; how far back can your collection go?
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​Personally, I can provide (at least) one coin in my collection from every Gregorian calendar year from 2017 (have yet to get a 2018) until 1842; but I'm sure there are others who can go back hundreds of years more.

Quote: "Monninen1"​1910. Gotta get a Penni from that year. (2018 too) My oldest one is from ancient china, something before christ.

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Quote: "Giobruno"​2018 to 1913 (if you consider that FIFA Soccer World Cup roubles as 2018), and gaps of 1-3 years between 1913 and 1849. After this there are a few coins between 1700 and 1850, one 1600's, one late Roman and one early Byzantine.
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​​Edit.: changed 1916 to 1913 since I got a 1915 coin.

​​I have gaps of 1-4 years all the way between 1851 and 1737. (Only 1-2 year gaps between 1843 and 1758, at that, but I don't appear to have anything from 1844-47.)
​Then another half a dozen dates in the early 1700s, another half a dozen (maybe more by now) in the 1600s, another half a dozen in the 1500s, and another dozen or so earlier than that (mostly Byzantine) - most of that latter category not yet entered into Numista, admittedly.

Quote: "January First-of-May"​

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Quote: "Giobruno"​2018 to 1913 (if you consider that FIFA Soccer World Cup roubles as 2018), and gaps of 1-3 years between 1913 and 1849. After this there are a few coins between 1700 and 1850, one 1600's, one late Roman and one early Byzantine.
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​​​Edit.: changed 1916 to 1913 since I got a 1915 coin.

​​​I have gaps of 1-4 years all the way between 1851 and 1737. (Only 1-2 year gaps between 1843 and 1758, at that, but I don't appear to have anything from 1844-47.)
​​Then another half a dozen dates in the early 1700s, another half a dozen (maybe more by now) in the 1600s, another half a dozen in the 1500s, and another dozen or so earlier than that (mostly Byzantine) - most of that latter category not yet entered into Numista, admittedly.

​​Update for September 20th: the 1844-47 thing had been covered up with a coin from 1846, so now I have only 1-2 year gaps all the way from 1851 to 1758. There's an uncertain 1757 that might bring it a bit further back; hadn't counted how far exactly.
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​As for the 1-4 year gaps, that now goes back to... well, I have 1736, 1731, 1728. Might have 1724, but it's uncertain. Then I have (at least) 1721, 1720, 1717, 1713, 1710, a probable 1705, 1703, 1699. (Incidentally, what happened to the 1699? I could swear I've entered it a while ago.) That should be it, though.

Quote: "CassTaylor"​I'm still stuck at 1829, but after that I have only one year gaps until 1785; I'm missing the years 1828, 1811, 1798, and 1795.
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​A few scattered coins throughout the rest of the 18th and 17th centuries, but thins out considerably before 1650.

I am reviving this thread as I got an update to my participation here.

After today's purchases, I remembered of this thread after getting a coin that filled my 1903 gap and now I saw in my profile that I can go all the way from 2023 (got a Bessie Coleman quarter as well) to 1865.

I could go all the way to 1853 if it wasn't for a gap in 1864.

So, after all these years of this thread being inactive, let us hear your answers. Or updates to the previous answers here.

I can go back from 2023 to 1844, I have many gaps from 1843 back.

Without any stops I can get back to 1852. That year I have a Gothic Florin. However at this stage I have nothing from 1851. Yet for 1850 I have 3 coins!

I can do a coin every year back to this historic beauty

Next gap is 1847 and 1848 and then its back to 1833 with no stops.

I am mainly lucky with having all dates of British bronze coinage back to 1860 (By that I mean, at least one of the 3 denominations per year - so for 1933 I don't have the penny, but I have the ½d and ¼d) and then I can do Gothic Florins and groats through the 1850s. The one year I came unstuck was 1859, but found I had a 10 cent Danish West indies coin from that year.

The coin that gave me an extra decade!

Things really thin out before 1816 (The year of the great English coinage reform) and pretty much I can only do a handful of coins back to 1670. But my oldest coin is the Carthaginian Tetra (Something I did to my computer wiped the photos) which is 3rd or 4th century BC.

My 10 oldest coins are

1. Tetra - 200 - 400BC

2. Diocletian Radiate - 302AD (AN XX)

3. Folis of Constantine the great 320AD

4. Constans II folis - 350sAD

5. Unidentified Roman copper - 4th century

6. Ummayad Dinar - c. 750 - 1200AD

7. Egyptian Copper thing - 1218 - 1240AD

8. English shilling - 1551/53

9. English 6d - 1572 (Oldest numerically dated coin)

10. English 6d - 1574

All my other Pre 1816 coins

1812 - Brimingham Union Workhouse Penny

1811/13 Wellington Local Halfpenny - Canada

1811 France 1 Franc - Napoleon

1807 British halfpennies x2

1806 British Halfpennies x 2

1799 British Halfpenny

1797 Cartwheel Tuppence

1794 Prussian silver coin

1794 Prince of Wales feathers halfpenny conder

1792 Selim 3 - Ottoman Yuzlik (AH 1203 + 5)

1792 Keighly Inclined Plane/Ironbridge Halfpenny

1789 Macclesfield Conder

1787 Great Britain Shilling

1787 Great Britain Sixpence

1783 Ottoman 2 Zolota, Abdul Hamid I (1187 + 11)

1782 Ottoman 2 Zolota, Abdul Hamid I (1187 + 10)

1780 Spanish 1 real coin

1769 Irish Halfpenny coin

1767 Prussian 4½ silber groschen (Frederick the great)

1758 Great Britain 1 shilling

1757 Great Britain 6d

1753 Great Britain Halfpenny

1747 German hard to read tiny silver coin (Has an eagle and 1747 on it)

1746 Great Britain Lima Halfcrown

1745 GB Lima Shilling

1739 GB Shilling

1731 GB Halfcrown

1723 Woods Irish Halfpenny

1723 GB Shilling

1720 GB Shilling

1711 GB Shilling

1709 GB Halfcrown

1707 GB Halfcrown

1697 England Halfcrown

1696 English Halfcrowns x 3

1695 English Shilling

1689 English Halfcrowns x 2

1688 Dutch “Reidershilling”

1687 English Halfcrown

1685 English shilling

1670 English Halfcrown

1656 English Halfcrown

1646 English shilling

1636 English Halfcrown

1596 English shilling

1590/92 English 6d

1587 English 6d

And that completes my pre 1816 lineup!

I had none of those coins, when I did my post in early 2019.

^{A silver unit from 55BC.}

For me I’ve got every year from 1898-2023 without any gaps. Also I have 31 coins that pre date 1898   that have a few gaps until the mid 1860s where the gaps are a few decades to a couple of centuries long.

• Newest is 2023 U.K. Charles III Silver Britannia.
• Oldest is 247-249 Samosata AE 30 Philip II (Not yet in Numista request pending).

edited, I'm not better, nor worse than before.

Last time my most recent missing year was 1801.  I apparently got an 1801 Large Cent since then.  Now I need 1793 and 1792.

My oldest coin is ca1050 AD. I don't seriously collect coins though. 

My oldest banknote is 1806. I think I have an example of a note of every year from 1894 to 2001 - almost all are Irish banknotes - I certainly have 1912 to 2001. Must dig out the albums and have a look!

Hibernia

My oldest coin is ca1050 AD. I don't seriously collect coins though. 

My oldest banknote is 1806. I think I have an example of a note of every year from 1894 to 2001 - almost all are Irish banknotes - I certainly have 1912 to 2001. Must dig out the albums and have a look!

Now that's a bit more Difficult with bank notes I will have a look how old my oldest is as I have never really looked .

It's not really about what's your oldest item is but now far can you go back in an unbroken series. Not really possible for banknotes I believe. For me I got the years from 2022 till 1887 now but many larger holes until 1848.

Not too far. Only 1894.

Idolenz

It's not really about what's your oldest item is but now far can you go back in an unbroken series. Not really possible for banknotes I believe. For me I got the years from 2022 till 1887 now but many larger holes until 1848.

I take the blame for that, by listing all my pre 1816 coins - a great but pointless exercise.

Maybe we should start another “A year a day thread” where we do a year every day going back and people show their coins from that year. We last did that in 2020.

1592 to 2022 

ZacUK

1592 to 2022 

 

You do have a few gaps in between, though. 😉

Exonumia: 1585 to 2015 

ZacUK

Exonumia: 1585 to 2015 

 

Even here there's quite a few holes to fill.

I don't collect “modern” coins so my “how far back” doesn;t go back at all.  But I have a run of consecutive years from 1700 to 1492 across my four collecting themes (mostly Kingdom of Poland and PLC)

I am gradually filling in the 18th century where I am missing about 15 dates, and simultaneously working backward from 1492(including undated but attributable coins before 1474).  No aspirations to come all the way to the to the present.  Here is what my chart looks like:

The gap at 1587 is a token from the Duchy of Lorraine.

Today I filled my gap at 1864.

Now I can go back all the way from 2023 to 1853.

But from there, the gaps are more frequent and wider, so I'll stop chasing those gaps.

But, it is nice to have a collection that can go back from present day to more than 150 years ago without gaps.

Congratulations!

1912 for me..

Just checked and wow! 2023 to 1811 for me

ngdawa, 25-Jan-2018 I have coins dated from[…] 2017-1887

Well, npw that I checked I actually have coins 2021-1887.

I will probably keep pickng up change, but I highly doubt I will keep building it backwards. If I ever get 1886 and 1885, I will end up in 1872 without any gaps, and then I'd just need 5 dates to reach 1847. 🤪

The furthest back I can go by date run is 1935. I don't collect bye year, but by type. So there is at least 1 different coin type in my collection in each year from 1935 to 2022

glykanI have a lot of gaps (especially before 1900) but my oldest are Olbia/Sarmatia dolphin coins made somewhere between 350 to 550 BC. Surprisingly, they are much more available (and affordable) than I thought. Sorry for the bright reflection on the scan - didn't want to remove them from their holders:

I have just heard about this and I am quite amazed. Why are they so cute lol, I'll try to find one pretty soon.

glykanI have a lot of gaps (especially before 1900) but my oldest are Olbia/Sarmatia dolphin coins made somewhere between 350 to 550 BC. Surprisingly, they are much more available (and affordable) than I thought. Sorry for the bright reflection on the scan - didn't want to remove them from their holders:

I had to buy one 😁. It will be my new oldest coin when it comes. My oldest right now is Judea Prutah 104-76bc

Apart from minor variations, I think I have every UK circulation penny back to 1860 (some are not in particularly good condition though).

CassTaylor

Quote: "druzhynets"​ I stop at 2015

​Don't feel too bad, I didn't have my 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 until just a few weeks ago.

In fact, my own 2015 I fished out of a fountain, but only because I saw it was a commemorative 2€ (who throws 2€ coins into fountains?!)

I once fished out a coin because it was a new country for me (czechia) but i did it at the Vatican >:)

ForeignFares

In fact, my own 2015 I fished out of a fountain, but only because I saw it was a commemorative 2€ (who throws 2€ coins into fountains?!)

I once fished out a coin because it was a new country for me (czechia) but i did it at the Vatican >:)

That's hilarious, when our tour group visited the Trevi fountain in 2014, we all threw 1,2 and 5 euro cent coins in. One fool threw in a 20 cent and got laughed at.

The main reason was, not because we were tight - well some of us may have been. But was because several Gypsies and Africans were hanging around the edge using magnetic rods to fish the coins out of the fountain and would periodically disappear and reappear when the Carabineri showed up. In fact Italy seemed to be plagued with Gypsies and Africans begging and hawking counterfeit items.

Unbroken, 2018 to 1797, then it gets very patchy. 

Had to  check… 

No zeros between 1854-2023 (no eurocoins in this collection).  

If i take some eurocents from my coinbottle, there will be 1854-2025. 🤔

Now I am back to 1816, with 1815 being the first year I don't have a coin.

Makes sense given I collect mostly British coins and 1816 was the year of the great recoinage. I do however have many foreign coins that cover most of the missing 1800s years.

As you can see I am cutting it fine for 1832 and 1833 (Ironically years in which no silver coins other than Maundy were issued in the UK).

I don't even know how i can check without exporting data to excel etc. my date chart spans from 500bc to 2025, so nearly my entire collection is clumped in the corner 😂  

Edit:

Wait, i see that you are able to scroll into the years on PC. I haven't used the PC version. I need to try it

NN.Ben

I don't even know how i can check without exporting data to excel etc. my date chart spans from 500bc to 2025, so nearly my entire collection is clumped in the corner 😂  

Edit:

Wait, i see that you are able to scroll into the years on PC. I haven't used the PC version. I need to try it

Yes, just put your cursor over the clump and it draws a shape, click it and it enlarges like you see in my post. It shows the number of coins per year and clicking on the bar will show a list of the coins you have from that year. In my case I want to look at my coins from 1910.

Clicking on the bar, will bring up this list of coins from that selected year sorted into countries, and your notes will be shown and a hotlink to that coin, if you need to  modify it.

And there you are - wondrous thing!

Moneytane

 

Yes, just put your cursor over the clump and it draws a shape, click it and it enlarges like you see in my post. It shows the number of coins per year and clicking on the bar will show a list of the coins you have from that year. In my case I want to look at my coins from 1910.

 

 

Clicking on the bar, will bring up this list of coins from that selected year sorted into countries, and your notes will be shown and a hotlink to that coin, if you need to  modify it.

 

 

And there you are - wondrous thing!

Oh wow, never heard about that second part about clicking on the bar.

Probably because this doesn't work on legacy display (it only works on complete display, I checked).

My last post here was at 2023, so since this thread resurfaced I checked my dashboard again for curiosity.

Turns out that I closed the 1852 gap long ago and now I can go all the way from 2025 to 1849.

But from 1849 to 1846 and from 1846 to 1843 there are gaps of two years each. As said before, from this point on the gaps are more frequent, I won't be chasing them.