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What is the Oldest British Coin?

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dooly

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Do you mean minted in UK/Britain or used there ?

 

This is one of the oldest

 

I found it with my detector

 

1st Century AD

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the earliest coins to CURCULATE in Britain were made in northern Gaul around 150 BC

coin production in gold seems to have started around 70BC in the kentish area

 

hope this helps

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Zoins

Zoins

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Was Britain first called something similar, e.g. Britannia, by the Romains? It seems the Romans conquered the islands in 51 AD. Prior to that, the Greeks had called the islands the Cassiterides or the "tin islands."

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