The First Silver Coins: The Croeseids

In this video, lets look at the very first Silver coin ever made, and its fractions.

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[ClassicalNumismatics]

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[HistoryInMyHands]

Always a pleasure to watch your videos Leo! Very knowledgeable and inspiring!
I will be looking to add some of these specimens to my collection!
Many thanks and much respect from USA!

[christopherevans]

Unfortunately I don't have any of these early silver peices. But considering almost all my others are of silver or silvered because of my own enjoyment of ancient silver coins. Gotta start looking. Great vid Leo on the early silver. As always thx for all your work

[brainkill]

Incredible to be able to see tiny coinage from centuries past. Thank you for sharing!

[rolandocastaneda]

Oldest silver coin I have is an 8 reales 1870 Guanajuato coin. Smallest coin I have is a dime. Great video.

[nrwalsh]

My oldest coin is a 2011 silver maple lol I love watching these videos. I have a minor in classics from a lifetime ago, so a lot of these videos bring back distant memories. Thanks for the quality content!

[isabelcrb]

2550 years old. How much majesty does that evoke! Such an old and venerable object

[John.Sarah.Eternal]

i just picked up a beautifully struck full stater! I am loving the incuses on the reverse, they are the most detailed I have seen. The obverse even has a bit of the die square on the top and right portion of the field. super beautiful! i was so excited! Great episode as usual! You have become my go to for coin content, especially of the ancient world! keep up the good work!

[TyZaTube]

Your videos are always so interesting! Thank you

[paulfly]

I've been collecting Roman coins for close to 50 years now, the only "Greek" coins in my collection are provincial coins. So my oldest silver coin is a Republican denarius that only goes back to 154 B.C. Some of the coins you show in this video are fully 400 years older! (mind blown) I've only recently (last 10 years or so) expanded into Roman Republican coins.

[MichaelMatthys-pm]

I have a Croeseid half-stater and a Carradine type III Siglos. Thank you again for a very interesting and informative video. It was very interesting to see the complete range of Croeseid coin sizes, I did not know there were so many. Also the smallest piece, with just the lion's head looked very like my little coin from Miletos and now I understand why that had the lion's head also.

[jonathanaristone]

Hi Leo: My first early coin is a turtle silver stater I acquired for $5, 50 yrs ago. Love your program, keep up the good work.

[ScottEllisen]

Thanks for showing those old coins! Very cool that you have something that old, let alone a set of them. My oldest coin is an 1817 Spanish Piece of 8 that is whole and in pretty good shape. And my smallest coin is a US gold dollar from 1868. Keep up the good work! Things like this will hopefully get more young people interested in Numismatics.

[HJohn-xnub]

My oldest coin is an Achaemenid Siglos. The smallest silver coin I have might be a Hungarian denar of Bela II that weighs 0.29 grams.

[stamasd]

My oldest silver coin is a Roman/Greek regional coin from the Aegean, approximately 5g so about the size of a denarius but not a denarius. :) Likely a drachma struck after the Roman conquest. I haven't had it formally identified, though I've had it in my collection for over 20 years.
The next to oldest silver coin I have is a leeuwendaalder from the 1600s. :)

[Enjoyinformation-hiuo]

I love your channel. I have no coins at present. But something i hope to get interested in.

[DopecatSpotted]

I watch almost all your videos lately but I really love this one. Ty very much for the video! Learned a bunch and now I want these! Haha.
Super expensive on eBay. I will have to be patient

[klink]

Thanks you so much for this interesting video ! My oldest silver coin is a 4th century BC Appolonia pontica drachma with the beautiful gorgon head

[leonardodtc]

These are surprisingly affordable, I got a killer good example of a FULL stater for about $600. Amongst the crown jewels of my collection.

[Doggo]

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