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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 3600876, member: 88829&quot;]On a timetable it is not one size fits all.&nbsp; </p><p>If the culture that produced the coin was an ancient culture, its coins are ancient until the culture is no more.&nbsp; The nub, however, is how do you tell when a culture ceases to be?&nbsp; </p><p>My interest is limited to Imperial Roman.&nbsp; The Western Roman Empire faded out before the Eastern Roman Empire.&nbsp; The residual Eastern Roman Empire gradually became a distinct culture during 5th century A.D., so the coinage reform of Anastasius I in 491 marks a good stopping point for what was Roman Coinage.&nbsp; The tiny follis/nummus is replaced by the enormous new follis which follows a very distinctive design scheme.&nbsp; I have a set of the new denominations as the marker for the end of an era.&nbsp; After that, what was Roman gives way to Romaion (aka Byzantine).&nbsp; For me the first is truly ancient, with its continuous connections all the way back to the advent of coins of the Roman Republic.&nbsp; The second, not so much.</p><p><br /></p><p>That is just one way to look at Roman Imperial culture, but it is sufficient to give me a reasonable rationale for saying (to myself) &quot;thus far and no further.&quot;&nbsp; You can do the same thing for any culture group that was connected to an earlier epoch.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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