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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The oldest coin I’ve ever gotten in change was a 1911 cent.
As you probably know, the portrait on your nickel is of George VI, who of course was the Queen’s father.
The unusual shape (twelve sided) was an experiment that the Canadian government tried for about 20 years. They stopped in the early 60′s, largely because it was hard on the coinage presses to make them that shape.
1947 was the second year that they had gone back to making them out of nickel. Because nickel was an important metal during the war, coins in that time period were made out of a type of brass called "tombec".
BTW, if you look just to the right of the date, you might see a little maple leaf. If there is one, the coin was actually made in early 1948. India became independent in 1947, so the king was no longer Emperor of India, which meant that his title had to be changed. At the time, coinage dies for Canada were made at the Royal Mint in England, and it took them longer to arrive than anticipated, so the Canadian mint decided to use old dies to strike coins until the new ones arrived. They added the maple leaf after the date to distinguish them from the "real" 1947 coins.
A Bi-Centenial Quarter
1940′s pennies. theyre more common than you would think
During the war, there was a shortage of raw nickle, because it was needed for war efforts. During the war they used copper coated with gold to make the new nickles and also a new press to make coins. After the war, they still discontinued the old coins but used the same press when there was no longer a nickle shortage. The coin is angular looking because it was easier to make a press angular instead of a perfect circle. In the late 50′s with the introduction of vending machines to the rest of the country, these angular coins would often get stuck in the machines, then they converted to circular designs and the problem was solved.
I have two coins so far (both U.S. coins). One is a 1945 penny (not the copper one, but look like silver?). I was told that they are running out of copper during WWII, so they start making this one. Also a 5 cents with the buffalo (front) and Indian head (back),dated 1938. There’s a lot of old coins for sale where I lived, but I’d never collected any old coins. Not my hobby?… but I collected all the 50 States (25 cents) and the new dollar coins (with different Presidents). Oximoron? I guess, I am…