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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3317468, member: 19463&quot;]For the most part it is when machines were used to produce the coins by pressing rather than hand striking/hammering rather than a strict matter of date.&nbsp; Of course this does not cover cast coins very well and there are exceptions which are hard to classify like the last of the Russian wire money.&nbsp; Ancients are generally up to about 500 AD and medieval takes the next 1000 years (to c,1500) but we here on CT Ancients seem to do medieval as well.&nbsp; Some people call all Byzantine coins ancient because they see them as a continuation of Roman; others say they are medieval.&nbsp; There is no hardline for such labels but a machine pressed 1778 coin is modern/world to me.&nbsp; I realize there is an issue of milled English silver older than the last of their struck silver so we have to allow for exceptions.&nbsp; Cobs might be questionable but anything after about 1500 would be pushing the matter to be called ancient. </p><p>How is that for a non-answer?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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