What Inherited Coin Has Been In Your Family The Longest?

jewelry? well that was just dumb..
I have a few pieces from my Grandmother also, She was born in 1888 (or something close to that)
I'll get a few images up in a bit.

Don't you know it! I was 13 when my Granny Smith passed (yes, like the apple...). It was probably several years later when I'd asked my Grandma what happened to those coins, and she let me know about the "beautiful" necklace that one of my Mom's cousins had made from them...

One consolation was I now own my great-grandmother's camelback trunk. Though it was strictly forbidden, and we would have had our hides tanned if we'd been caught, I remember me and a few other cousins looking through it a few times when Granny was napping in her rocking chair back in the late 1960's. It was full of old treasures from her younger years including postcards and letters from the late 1800's, her marriage license from 1900, button hooks, old newspaper clippings, lots of trinkets, etc. And that pouch of gold coins. Of course, when I received the trunk it was empty but is still nice to have...

I'm spamming my own thread, but this 1771 Skilling Danske makes me curious. It's my oldest inherited coin, but how long has it been in the family? Almost any European coins circulated in the colonies, but I don't know for how long. It predates my 1835 25c by more than 60 years. I do have direct ancestors through the previously mentioned g-g-grandfather that go back to the Revolution and beyond (to the 1630s) so it's possible it originated with one of them. I probably won't ever know for sure.

@Petespockets55, I know that happens more often than we think, whenever houses and belongings are being cleaned out after someone passes. It's good the coins were found and stayed in the family...

I'll look forward to seeing some pics of the California gold when you have the opportunity!

Mine is a 1921-D Morgan that my Mom gave me when I showed an interest in coins at 10 years old in the 1950's.The coin was used in a piece of jewelry that my Dad bought for her when they were dating in the 1930's. You can see the notches on the reverse.

It has very little $ value but has huge sentimental value for me.

Unfortunately the coin I inherited does not qualify for this thread, because it is not a US Classic or Colonial.

However it is one of the Worlds scarcest (not rarest) and most beautiful crown sized coins:
1894 German New Company 5 Marks with Bird of Paradise reverse, in about EF45 condition.

The coin originally belonged to my wife's grandfather, and was acquired by him when working as a Christian missionary in Samoa, at the time when the coin was struck.


I also have another interesting crown sized coin, given to me by a Christian missionary, which was acquired by him when working in Potsosi (Bolivia) in the 1960's.
The coin:
1808 8 Reales, Ferdinand V11, condition about VF40.

Both coins will remain as a future inheritance

My grandfather, born 1888, gave my dad born 1916 an 1854 Arrows at date quarter when lost his first tooth. I was born 1955 and got the quarter when I lost my first tooth. My son born 1989 got the quarter when he lost his first tooth. Coin is in a holding pattern waiting on the next generation when it will pass to my first grandchild ( don't have one yet)

Those last two stories are very cool.

My brother has this 1804 Half Cent, from the same grandparents' pile. I suspect it came via the same ancestor as the 1835 25c I posted earlier, but we'll never know who exactly.