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Message:: [QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2481642, member: 76194"]Technically, ancient coinage is from 600 BC through around 475-500 AD. Dark age/Medieval starts at around 500 AD and goes through around 1,500 AD. However, that is really for European coins. For example, Sassanian coinage in the Middle East could technically be considered ancient coinage even through the 600s, and medieval in places like Japan can stretch through the 1800s. So it's all relative.Although this is the ancients forum, it is not uncommon to find coins up to the late medieval period here. After all, the Eastern Roman Empire lasted until 1453, and hand struck coins were the norm until the late medieval period, so it's not uncommon for ancient coin collectors to dabble in medieval coinage on the side. But as a rule of thumb, from the mid to late 1500s forward when most of the world starts to adopt presses to strike coins, that would definitely be considered modern coinage by almost everyone here. US coinage is all 100% modern, even the colonial stuff. One could argue though that some Indian, Japanese, and Chinese coinage from as late as the 18th or 19th century might technically be ancient/medieval as far as the methods used to create the coins...but that's a gray area I'm not fit to discuss.[/QUOTE]