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Curious what is the oldest thing that the Apolytoners have, in terms of age, of course 
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I got two very old things:
A German printed Bible - 1780.
A Livonian coin from Revele (now Tallin) - probably second half of 14th century.
Well, the Bible is nothing too much of an interest, so a bit of background on the coin.
In 1998, I was walking in one of the castles of Latvia, when I noticed a round metalic looking object on the ground. After taking it, the thing seemed to look like an old coin, or something like that, so I took it with me. It was so dirty that I couldn't see the coin itself.
Coming home, I cleaned the thing as much as I could, and realized it's actually a coin, and it seemed a pretty old one.
I visited a museum, and asked what to do. They told me to use tomato (!) to clean the thing. So, each morning I put the coin into a tomato, to take it out and replace in the evening. And, in a week, the coin became almost clean, only having parts of that green crap on it now. Parts of it are totally used, parts are good, so I took it again to the museum.
I was told that this kind of a coin was first found only in 1993. The coin was used in Livonia, originated in Revele (Tallin), and this kind of coins was stopped being used in 1422. So it's somwhere late 13'00s or up to 1421. Heck, it's old! This existed before America was discovered, and I own it. Feels nice
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What's your oldest thing?
.I got two very old things:
A German printed Bible - 1780.
A Livonian coin from Revele (now Tallin) - probably second half of 14th century.
Well, the Bible is nothing too much of an interest, so a bit of background on the coin.
In 1998, I was walking in one of the castles of Latvia, when I noticed a round metalic looking object on the ground. After taking it, the thing seemed to look like an old coin, or something like that, so I took it with me. It was so dirty that I couldn't see the coin itself.
Coming home, I cleaned the thing as much as I could, and realized it's actually a coin, and it seemed a pretty old one.
I visited a museum, and asked what to do. They told me to use tomato (!) to clean the thing. So, each morning I put the coin into a tomato, to take it out and replace in the evening. And, in a week, the coin became almost clean, only having parts of that green crap on it now. Parts of it are totally used, parts are good, so I took it again to the museum.
I was told that this kind of a coin was first found only in 1993. The coin was used in Livonia, originated in Revele (Tallin), and this kind of coins was stopped being used in 1422. So it's somwhere late 13'00s or up to 1421. Heck, it's old! This existed before America was discovered, and I own it. Feels nice
.What's your oldest thing?
Okay, stone-age flint axe, then.
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