30-05-2002 22:35									#31
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The oldest thing I possess? My brain cells, obviously.

	30-05-2002 22:35									#32
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My rented student accomodation is...

Five hundred years old!

The front door is less than six foot high, and the 'communal' stairs are spiral, to defend against right-handed attackers.

	30-05-2002 22:43									#33
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But you don't own it

When I come and think about it, my (paternal) grand father might own some even older stuff than these maps of mine. Can't be a lot older though, apart from some tiny knick-knack, maybe

	30-05-2002 22:48									#34
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also 3 crosses. one gold and two silver. (but i only have the gold one)

according to family legend, my grandpa, when he was young, found them in his yard one morning. he took them to a priest and the priest said "the two silver crosses mean the two daughters that you wil have. the gold cross means the one grandson that you will have".

that's exactly what happened.... my mom and my aunt are now in possession of the silver ones and i have the gold. pretty amazing.

	30-05-2002 22:53									#35
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I've got an American Indian Head penny from 1890.

	30-05-2002 22:55									#36
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Paiktis, you are his only grandson?

	30-05-2002 22:59									#37
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yup.

	30-05-2002 23:06									#38
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I didn't ask that to get a formal reply, I think I sort of figured that. Do you have many female cousins from that side?

	30-05-2002 23:10									#39
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quote: Originally posted by Ecthelion I didn't ask that to get a formal reply

i know

	30-05-2002 23:10									#40
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he should ban you instead of wasting his time getting trolled by me

	30-05-2002 23:28									#41
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Not counting coins, the oldest thing I own is a Darwin Ape statue. It is an ape sitting on a stack of books, one titled Darwin, staring at a human skull. It dates to around 1963.

	30-05-2002 23:29									#42
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Talking about coins, I keep getting told by my father that I once found a 19th century French coin in some field in the north of this country.

	30-05-2002 23:39									#43
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I too have a stone scraping tool. Sharp as hell. I found it in my backyard here in California, so I sincerely doubt it is more 10,000 years old.

	30-05-2002 23:41									#44
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Myn grandfather's Naval sword. (1920)

	30-05-2002 23:42									#45
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GP, the oldest thing you possess is, just like in paiktis' case, also a family heirloom. It is called alcoholism.

	30-05-2002 23:52									#46
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you're so funny
that's your idea of trolling GP... pretty pathetic my young whipersnaper

	30-05-2002 23:54									#47
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I didn't ask you for an opinion, paiktis. And I frankly don't care what you think about that.

BTW, isn't the oldest thing you possess the gene to produce an overly amount of body hair?

	30-05-2002 23:56									#48
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once a nazi, always a nazi.

	30-05-2002 23:58									#49
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an anticipated attempt to troll a great mind. as always, blocked

	31-05-2002 00:26									#50
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A roman silver ring- still wearable. Estimated date- about 100AD.

A couple of Roman coins from about 150AD

A stone cannonball I found in a field over the road. I guess it's got to date from the War of the Roses.

I found a stone arrowhead- no idea how old that is.

	31-05-2002 00:28									#51
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On a field? Why do people always fidn stuff on a field? Shouldn't that stuff be found by the farmer at some point before?

	31-05-2002 00:30									#52
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I grew up in an area where there's loads of stuff like that. Just dig a trench and you'll find old pottery galore. Coins and buckles too.

	31-05-2002 00:32									#53
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Well, I for myself never got how a coin from the 1860s or so could get to northeast Germany. Too late for Napoleon, but maybe someone had just lost the thing there a few days before

	31-05-2002 00:44									#54
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if you're building in Greece, and you're escavating to make the foundations of the house, chances are there's something ancient in there.

if it is retrievabale, no problem. you call the archeologists and they take care of it, or if you dont want to respect the law, you take care of it.


if it not retreivable, there is a problem. if it is reported or found out, most of the times it stops the building process the archeologists take over and the area is declared untouchable.

	31-05-2002 00:45									#55
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The reason why things get found in fields is due to these new devices they have that can quickly excavate large areas of topsoil to expose things buried beneath. We call them "ploughs".

	31-05-2002 00:46									#56
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as the metro of athens was build, there were so many ancient artifacts found, they now can fill a whole new museum.

	31-05-2002 01:11									#57
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You've got to tell me more about them, Bugs.

	31-05-2002 01:20									#58
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Don't have anything particularly old myself, but I'll be inheriting my grandparents collections of pretty old Russian icons and this one really nice samovar that used to be owned by a Russian general stationed in Finnland which I'll inheirit eventually...

	31-05-2002 01:36									#59
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My oldest artifact is a Roman coin. My oldest object is a fossil I found a couple years ago.

	31-05-2002 01:56									#60
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My oldest artefact is a Chinese dagger coin. According to a reference book I glanced at it is either fake or it is from 500 - 300 BC. I bought it in a junk shop in Seattle for $1 'cause it looked neat.

My oldest object is a trilobite fossil I bought in Turkey.