Which is the oldest coin which has been given to you as change ?

I was looking at my change tonight and notice a few American coins, subway tokens, an English pound , etc lol but one attracted my attention…

It was an unusual 5 Canadian cent coin. 1947. Looked like the modern one but not quite.

( I might have gotten older ones before but did not care…)

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ahh..I do not notice pennies..
but when you think about it…..those have changed hands so many times !!
yes I think I had one centime (France) dating 1920s or something but..I just passed it along..
oxo : damn !! I said Change..

I bought a coin from mesopotamia dating 600 or something AD..but I bought it..it is in the safe of our bank..
I am not a coin collector either at all but gee..when I saw that very small coin, so old,,well my savings were spent on it ( joking)
I got it at Epsom, England..there are lots of collectors and lots of goodies to be found ..
Ah Scott ! What a lot of info !

No there is no Maple Leaf and although it was hard to read, I could make out George V..rex…India..

I think rex in latin means : king…

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