Dude, it's 2008 AD, so add 6 to that.

Brand new.

It would be fake. It'd be relatively new.

2014 yrs old

Pretty new, and fake!

... its date could be the "equivalent" of 6 BC, but it could not be actually marked as 6 BC ... it would have to be a moron's attempt at a forgery.

Because back then they didnt know it was BC it would be a forgery. some idiot might pay millions for it!

If you mean the coin actually says "6 BC" that would be an obvious fake - but even if scientists examined it and dated it, they couldn't have done so to an exact year

Over two millenia

The answer is: BRAND NEW. Because BC means before Christ and no one new when christ would be born.Even after he was born the 3 kings tokk 3-4 years to find out. There were no BC coins. thanks Escussion(Most diverse questionaire)

It's impossible to tell outside certain parameters (the beginning of the BC/AD dating system). Chevalier Daniel C. Boyer

The birth of Jesus during his time was a non-event. Nop one would have given a coin dated at that time. If the coin said that, it is a fake. A coin from that period would be approximately 2046 years old give or take a decade or two. But, no on knew Jesus at that time, and no one would have minted coins to honor the birth of a child born to a poor family in a manger.

1) "6 BC" usually means year 6 "Before Christ, an epoch based on the traditionally reckoned year of the conception or birth of Jesus of Nazareth" Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BC 2) The only date on a coin is normally the date where the coin has been issued, in the date system of the authority who made the coin. This date would not normally refer to a future event, moreover, the whole date system could not refer to a future event either. Of all the people who have been waiting for the Messiah, I never heard of any knowing that his name would have been Christ or when he would come. Neither have there been people basing their date system on this event at that time. It appeared much later: "Though the Anno Domini dating system was devised in 525, it was not until the 8th century that the system began to be adopted in Western Europe. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, even popes continued to date documents according to regnal years, and usage of AD only gradually became more common in Europe from the 11th to the 14th centuries. In 1422, Portugal became the last Western European country to adopt the Anno Domini system." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini 3) The realistic possibilities would be: - a memorial coin. For instance, it could be a memorial coin for April 17, 6 BC, as it was the possible birth date of Jesus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6_BC (however, memorial coins also usually mentioned the date where they were made.) - a fake...

It's impossible to find a coin like that.

I remember they tried this one on us when I was in school. Recently obviously (well since the 5th century A.D. ish) as how would someone IN 6 B.C. know of the imminent birth of Jesus? They would have used a different calendar system. It is like a commemorative plate of Kennedy's inauguration with "Assassinated in 1963" stamped on it. You would know it would have to have been made sometime after the assassination event.