What Coins are Acceptable to Post About on the Ancient Forum?

I was wondering what the general consensus is amongst the members here. Do you consider only coins minted before AD 500 to be valid topics of discussion on the Ancient Forum or are later coins also fair game?

 

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Yeah, and I just noticed the spelling of "Accient" in the title

 

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To my mind anyone who is interested in coins that are historically or numismatically interesting and were made using pre-modern methods should feel free to share and discuss those coins with the rest of us.

 

Thank you, I feel slightly better now.

 

If it is not milled I'm interested in seeing it.

 

I would say this is really the "ancient and medieval" forum, so anything medieval is definitely acceptable; and probably anything hammered. But I think the real norm is this: as long as you're a member of the "Ancient Coins Forum" social community, you can post what you like. (And, of course, virtually all community members primarily post ancient & medieval.)

 

I agree. Mostly we show and tell coins struck before 500 AD, but we all like coins in all the areas you suggest. My thoughts: heck why not? If the coin is not in an era I collect, I can still enjoy them.

 

We used to be ancient and world coins. I voted for before 500AD and Byzantine. If I could word it, I would say before 500 AD, Byzantine, and related empires. ALl dark age stuff is from the fallout of Rome and interesting to me, but get into the thin medieval stuff and I get lost.

However, having said that, I just bought a 1850 something Peruvian 1/4 Rial for no apparent reason except I loved the crude llama today, so what do I know.

 

To me your penny of John fits right into the ancients forum. The technology used to produce medieval and later hammered coins is basically the same as coins produced 1000 years before.

 

Wouldn't it be everything but modern coins, i.e.: before the industrial revolution? I'd say anything that satisfies that condition is fair game.

 

I think it should stretch from the earliest coinage all the way up to the end of hammered coinage in the 1500s or so. While the coins change a lot over all that time, the later struck coinages fit here better than on any of the modern boards. It gets a bit muddier when it comes to non-European coinages, which don’t follow the same developmental history.

 

Last option for me. I love medieval as much as ancients.

 

Same for me.

 

When Octavian became Augustus, from a historical perspective, coins became modern to me.

RR Anon after 211 BCE AR Quinarius 2.12g Helmeted hd Roma - Dioscuri riding Cr 68-2b was 44-6 RSC 3 ex Clain-Stefanelli

However, we can stretch the boundaries to option 4 above: all hand-pounded coins!

None of this mass-produced, machine operated, perfected disks with microns of deviation that would excite people... No. Leave those for the moderns.

I did too. Got one for myself, and one for one of my Sr. Product Managers who was from Peru.

 

I think the cutoff is typically 1600, but I have been tempted to post 18th-century hammered coinage here as well.

(Jk of course)

 

I think the main accent is on coins from Antiquity, i.e. to about roughly 500-650 AD to include the Roman Empire, but also the Sasanians and maybe the Vandals and their ilk. But later coins are welcome, too. There's been a lot of talk here recently about the boundaries of Antiquity and the edges of this forum, but I don't see a problem. Some people only care about Greek coins, and just don't click on Roman or medieval subjects. That's fine, isn't it? There's a lot of activity here, that's a great thing. Many forums are a lot more quiet...

 

I prefer mostly western pre-Byzantine but don't mind seeing the other stuff and occasionally some of those non-ancient coins get added to the wish list because of an entertaining post seen on here.

In addition to what others have said about hand-hammering, perhaps a more general way would be to say that this Ancients board is a place to show handmade coins that can be touched (ie, that don't have to be slabbed in order to maximize value). Yes, I'm kidding. Sort of. [Edited to keep this from being a slab rant thread, since I've done enough of that : the preceding thought doesn't mean you can't slab your ancient and medieval coins, just that you don't have to slab it for it to be sellable. I hope our ancient coin hobby never succumbs to that mindset.]

The Ancients board seems to attract collectors who have questions about and appreciation of their coins beyond condition, grade, and value. Anyone who posts any not-strictly-ancient coin here accompanied by interesting trivia or thoughtful information is welcome in my book .

 

@TypeCoin971793 that is a great looking "Randall Hoard" Large Cent.

 

Like @Alegandron said as long as they aren’t mass produced machine made I think this is the right place. I like seeing the variety.