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Suggestion For Decade's Type Coins?

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Hello, my fellow numismatists!

My new idea is to buy a coin from each decade back to invention of modern die-press (16xx?). Is this a practical idea? And if so, any suggestions about which coin from which country should I buy for each decade? Thanks in advance!
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I have no idea what the modern die press is, or when it was invented. I'd guess it happened either way before the 17th century, or way later. (Didn't the Russians use mechanical copying for their coin dies since like the 1530s or something?)

It's a perfectly practical idea, as long as the starting date is somewhere reasonable. With a half-decent budget you can even move on to getting a coin from each year in that range (as long as it doesn't stretch beyond the 17th century, anyway - decades make it easier, as shown in that one ongoing thread on the Ancients forum).
I think I already have a coin from each decade since the 1690s (despite having a tiny purchasing budget, and not consciously shooting for the goal).

I'd recommend a Polish (or Lithuanian, doesn't matter) copper solidus (boratynka) to symbolize the 1660s, if you go that far - they had been made in ludicrously crazy quantities (I think something like a billion is estimated) to fuel Burattini's weird idea of the Polish economy.
Not sure what to recommend for any other decade, sorry.
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Fairly easy to do for French coins, going back to 1642, during the reign of Louis XIII.
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I mean coins made by the mechanical press using a pair of dies instead of coins casting into a mold.

@t360 I am going to look into French cions, thanks!!
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Coins were made by using a pair of dies (as opposed to casting into a mold) pretty much since they were made, period (maybe a bit less if you don't count the types where one of the dies was an irregular punch. and/or if you include some early proto-money as "coins").
It would probably be impossible to go by decades that far - past the 4th century BC or so most types just aren't attributed that precisely.
(Meanwhile, the Chinese, and later also the Vietnamese, were making coins by the "casting into a mold" method from sometime well into BC up until the 1940s. And it was also applied by some other places occasionally.)

Mind you, until, well, sometime about the 17th century, they were not made by a mechanical press, but by manually striking with a hammer (or something similar).

Some googling indicates that you're probably referring to milled coinage, and that the first decade when such coins were made would be the 1550s.
It's just about reasonable enough to get a coin from each of those decades (at least, if you're willing to include old-style hammered coins for the 16th and 17th century), but would probably be complicated to do by year.
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