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Nic Pillar of the Community Philippines 1156 Posts	Posted 09/18/2009 10:49 pm I would like to include at least one ancient coin in my collection, what would be the minimal date of the coin or age of coin, to be considered ancient? thanks Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16859 Posts	Posted 09/19/2009 12:45 am Personally, I have a general cutoff across all coin series: 500 AD. Anything older than that is "ancient", anything newer than that is "mediaeval". It's a convenient date for coin collectors, because the Roman/Byzantine emperor Anastasius I reformed the coinage in 498, effectively ending the "Roman" series and beginning the "Byzantine" series. Some people choose to have different cutoff dates, depending on which particular series is of interest to them. Classical scholars use the termination of the Western Roman Empire in 476. Someone mainly interested in Indian or Persian coins would probably consider anything pre-Islamic to be "ancient". And in many respects, the words "ancient", "mediaeval" and "modern" have less meaning once you leave the European and Near-Eastern series. China, for example, never really had a "Dark Ages" so dividing the Chinese series into ancient, mediaeval and modern is somewhat arbitrary, though anything pre-Tang Dynasty (621 AD) could reasonably be considered "ancient". Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
Nic Pillar of the Community Philippines 1156 Posts	Posted 09/20/2009 07:10 am Thanks sap! detailed response much appreciated, and copy 500AD Report this Post to the Staff
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