There are 10,000-year-old arrowheads sold for that much or less. They’re not scarce or sacred or anything; they’re literally weapons that were made in mass quantities for warfare or hunting.
I like this one because it’s one step up from a rock and minimally qualifies the object as a human making.
Well, the earliest ones that were not mass produced are valuable even though they aree the smallest step up from a rock. It is the later, well made ones that are extremely common because they were made and used for thousands of years that are not.
I’ve seen some BC bronze arrowheads listed for auction and were surprised how cheap they were.
There’s a lot of fake “bronze” stuff coming out of China, so keep an eye out.
You could get a handful of Roman coins for less than $5 if you don’t care about the quality. Or this $96.94 silver Hadrian coin from approximately 117-138 CE
If you do, be sure to post I in [email protected] 🙂
Roman coins is the first thing that came to mind. There’s a ton of them out there and museums don’t want any more either. You can get one for quite cheap.
I find it fascinating that, because the Roman empire was so vast and lasted for so long, their defunct money is now strewn all over Europe.
It does help when it’s made of metal
You would think that because of that, people would melt them down when they became no longer useful as currency.
I got a bag of them for $8 on ebay
Guessing a book. Or maybe an arrowhead. Hopefully a collector or historian will weigh in. It’s a fun question.
The arrowhead sounds more viable. The oldest ones can be thousands of years old, and the prices are all over the place. Fancy ones cost a fortune, while a badly beaten one will be well within the budget.
I worked at auctions, being the offline ‘online’ buyer, so people could use me as an in person bidder for that online platform. I saw a
3500800 ish year old tiny Aztec sculpture go for 260 euro, around 2015. I was like, do I need to call the cops? What is happening?Definitely something was wrong there. Aztecs became a thing about 800 years ago.
Hmmm, maybe it was 800yo instead of 800 bc or something, excuse me, but definitely Aztec!
Definitely 800 years ago, not 800 BC
3500 yrs ago would be olmec probably
you can find paleolithic tools for less than that on ebay, but i would assume there are lots of fakes posted for sale
In the British Empire, ancient Egyptian cat mummies were sold as fertilizer.
And the rest! Human mummies were ground up and used for a paint called “mummy brown”. Artists only stopped using it because the supply of mummies dried up (lol).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown
During the Egyptomania phase in Victorian times, rich folk would hold mummy unwrapping parties… and not just in England.
Pretty sure you could get a bit of mummy for that price
Bit weird to sell bits of your own mum, mate.
/s
To eat?
More likely to make paint with.
But yes.
If you’d like the taste of linen and bone dust
Are you my mummy?
I bought a meteorite for like £2.50
A rock.
