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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1272522, member: 19463&quot;]I used to be hardline on the term &#039;ancient&#039; but it started bothering me that coin dealers who handled only ancients were selling Byzantine up to the mid 1400&#039;s but ignoring other regions from the 500&#039;s.&nbsp; I don&#039;t care what we call them but I now collect coins that were made in the good old fashion pre-mechanical methods.&nbsp; For the most part that means struck but not pressed.&nbsp; There are some casts but few enough that I can accept them in whichever group the struck coins of the same group fall.&nbsp; The best answer, IMHO, is no answer.&nbsp; History is not a subject to be compartmentalized neatly.&nbsp; Any teacher who requires students to memorize that Rome fell in 476 AD worries me.&nbsp; Anyone who can draw a line in the sand at 27 BC between the Roman Republic and The Roman Empire is little better.&nbsp; I suppose we have to have some lines here and there but we need to learn that Nerva (13th Caesar), Leo (too late to be Roman, too early to be Byzantine) and other historical fence straddlers need love too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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