Ah, and that reminds me the wife has my grandmother’s wristwatch. Rather beautiful and a bit ornate but not overly so. Very tasteful. My grandmother probably got it new in the 1920s. It resently stopped working, too, and we’re going to have it repaired. The wife loves wearing it.
I have a very corroded Roman hairpin. I’ve always wanted to wear it.
I have an English shilling from 1764, and a few more from the 19th century, including the one I got in a lot only to find it had a small hole in it. I put a chain on it and I wear it almost every day.
But I used to work with old documents from England, mostly from the 1520’s to the 1560’s, and one dating from 1421, so none of the coins I own seem particularly old to me.
I have a family bible printed in 1862. I also have an eskimo spearhead of indeterminate age, but I believe it’s ancient.
Quite a few arrowheads, spear points and pieces of pottery but their age is to anyone but an expert indeterminable.
I do have an ancient coin I got from an abandoned site in either Greece or Turkey. It’s got a beautiful ship on one side and three XXXs on the other. I really need to do something with that; get a money clip made out of it or get it framed or something.
I’m fixing to inherit Following the Equator which was published in 1897.
I have a few medals from the second Boer War (turn of the 20th Century)
Our Cottage is built on a pretty old rock (4 billion give or take a few weeks).
We have pictures and letters and things dated anywhere from the early 19th to mid 19th century (obviously the pictures are at least mid).
I also have an arrowhead collection. That’s pretty old.
I collected coins as a tot. I’ve got some 10 pfennig (German) coins from 1952 which I found on a beach, and Irish and English pennies from the turn of the century.