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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;iPen, post: 2296441, member: 69760&quot;]Just a thought...</p><p><br /></p><p>If it&#039;s &quot;ancient&quot;, then doesn&#039;t it strictly abide by time designations as understood by historians? Wikipedia refers to ancients as the time of early man all the way to the Post-Classical era or the early middle ages. Technological changes and methods can evolve or even stagnate. However, even, say, a hypothetical &quot;modern&quot; screw pressed coin that were developed by the Ancient Greeks would be considered ancient, right? They&#039;d simply be ahead of their time. Additionally, thousands of years from now, we may be considered &quot;ancient&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>If one is a &quot;type&quot; collector like I am, then that&#039;s its own definition. Since I collect silver type coins, ancient coins would only be a subset. If one were to collect country-specific, hammered style, US colonial era only, etc. type coins, then that would fit the bill as its own type. If for instance hammered style coins were predominant in ancient times but was still in use into the last couple of centuries, then the latter coins would still be using &quot;ancient&quot; methods of coin production. Conversely, if, say, some Ancient Greek coins weren&#039;t hammered, they&#039;d still be ancient coins due to the period in which they were produced.</p><p><br /></p><p>And, I believe that the beauty of this hobby is that you can narrow or expand the number of &quot;types&quot; you want to collect. For me, although I like to collect silver type coins, I&#039;m dabbling into hyperinflation paper notes, a very specific subset banknote type, and I may get into a specific type of red gold coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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