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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3598142, member: 19463&quot;]I hope you benefit from the above answers and non-answers.&nbsp; One thing that will add confusion is that not every culture &#039;moved&#039; from one period to another at the same time.&nbsp; I prefer to think of ancient ending at about 500 AD and Medieval ending about 1500 AD but 500 can mean 476 in the West while the fall of Constantinople in 1453 ends medieval to me.&nbsp; It is not like there was a line in the sand that someone jumped while yelling, &quot;I&#039;m medieval now!&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>In 491 AD Anastasius issued a new series of Bronze coins that we call the beginning of Byzantine coinage.&nbsp; In 476, the last Roman coinage in the West was issued for Romulus Augustus.&nbsp; For our purposes, both of these numbers are 500 in my book.&nbsp; There are a hundred other breaks in the continuity of coinage in various places but all we really need to remember is precise dates for things was a way of teaching history when memorizing dates was the important thing.&nbsp; Today, I prefer we think of dates as a small part of understanding the big picture.</p><p><br /></p><p>Question: Who issued the last Roman coin:</p><p>1. Romulus Augustus</p><p>2. Julius Nepos</p><p>3. Anastasius</p><p>4. Someone else</p><p>5. All of the above</p><p>6. None of the above</p><p><br /></p><p>A case can be argued for each.&nbsp; Similarly, when was Jesus Christ born?&nbsp; When were the first coins made (define &#039;coin&#039;)? Anyone looking for straight and simple answers needs to pick a new subject.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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