In ancient coin terms, just by size alone I am assuming an Elizabeth I shilling 31.mm, 5.84gm is worth more than an equal condition Six Pence 25.mm, 2.6gm ?? I have owned several Elizabeth I six pence coins however I have this Elizabeth I shilling and do not know it's aprox. worth??? One interesting thing about this coin is that it was struck during the years of the Spanish Armada readying its attack on England & possibly during year of the actual battle itself... Anyone who knows Medieval England coins may wish to inform me somewhat...
I don't know what it's worth, but I strongly suggest that you don't list it as medieval: nobody would classify Elizabeth I's reign as such.
You’d be surprised that people figure anything before 1800 is medieval. Way too many people call Shakespearean lingo “old English.”
I have heard many argue over when the medieval period began & petered out, I myself am not to stringent these specific dates, any period that have flouncy cloths, surfs & peasents, Knights & jousting I naturally think of medieval castles with all being a part of the Medieval Period... however, I would love to know your position on what dates constitute the medieval period...?
I'm kinda thinking it would cost as much as any added value to have the graffiti smoothed out, & then one would have the comment of smoothing added if graded again???
Nice coin! I would put Elizabeth I into the period that I would generally call the late Renaissance. Her reign, so distinctive in terms the growing international power of England, as well as achievements in the arts, in particular, is known, of course, as the Elizabethan Age. How little Henry VIII would know that his daughter, deemed illegitimate following the execution of her mother, would become one the greatest monarchs in British history. The year 1600 generally marks the start of the Baroque period.
1500 is the generally-accepted date for the end of the late medieval period and the beginning of early modern. Also around the same time for the Reformation. The Renaissance overlaps, and began at different times in different places. But you will only make people think you don't know anything about the period if you call it medieval.
As Donna said above, 1500 is the generally accepted end date of the Middle Ages. If you want to be more precise, though, the years between c. 1440 and 1540 are often considered a transitional century between the medieval and the early modern period. This century saw a large number of political, military, social and religious events as well as scientific discoveries and technological innovations that were to profoundly shape the early modern world: 1439: Johannes Gutenberg invents movable type printing 1453: Ottoman conquest of Constantinople 1461: Empire of Trebizond falls to the Turks, final end of Byzantine rule 1462: Cosimo de Medici and Marsilio Ficino establish the "Platonic Academy" at Florence 1469: The marriage between Ferdinand II and Isabella unifies Spain 1475: Abraham Zacuto's Almanach perpetuum, start of precise astronavigation 1492: Fall of Granada, end of the Spanish Reconquista 1492: Columbus reaches America 1498: Vasco da Gama first reaches India by sea c. 1500: Development of the wheellock handgun c. 1503–1506: Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa 1507: Martin Waldseemüller creates the first world map showing America 1509: Henry VIII becomes king of England 1511: Peter Henlein invents the portable watch 1517: Luther's 95 theses, start of the Protestant Reformation 1519: Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico 1521: Diet of Worms, marks first overt schism of the western church 1526: Sack of Rome 1533: Pizarro's conquest of the Inca Empire 1534: First Act of Supremacy, start of English Reformation 1543: Andreas Vesalius publishes De humani corporis fabrica, start of modern anatomy 1543: Nikolaus Kopernikus publishes De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, heliocentric model of the solar system
I sometimes see the entire Byzantine series right up to 1453 categorized as "ancient" in the trade, making "medieval" a much shorter period than I had always assumed (please visualize a sarcastically-placed rubbing-the-chin-in-deep-thought emoji at this point). On a more serious note, I tend to blame the Krause catalogs, which begin arbitrarily at 1601, for the popular misconception that anything prior is "medieval".
You /Donna nailed it with admirable concision. Along with other folks' alerts to the various nuances involved ...into which numismatics throws its own set of monkey wrenches. You're talking about two many contexts at once, only starting with the geography, for there to be one inherently meaningful cut-off point. It's a moving target.
Well thank you Donna for bringing the medieval context into this post, I am quite a casual individual so I do not quibble over a hundred years one way or the other, but it is good to now know that I shall not call anything after 1500 ad. "medieval", as I don't wish to look the total fool when it comes to coin periods...
