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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikjo0, post: 184215, member: 3565&quot;]Pretty accurate but there are cutoffs to what constitutes &quot;modern&quot; for each aspect of ancient-modern collecting.</p><p>Here are my personal ones:</p><p>Greek-anything minted after the Roman occupation in 146 BC</p><p>Roman-anything after about 450 AD</p><p>Byzantine-although they lasted until the Spring of 1453,I consider anything later than 1000 AD to be modern.</p><p>Celtic-since most of it was made between 150 BC-150 AD,it&#039;s all ancient</p><p>Dark ages-also all ancient...from the departure of Rome to the Norman conquest.</p><p>Medieval-1066 AD until the first milled coins of 1500-1600.</p><p>Newer World coins-anything milled on a modern coin press to 1900.</p><p>U.S.Coins-I consider anything after the demise of the Seated Liberty series and the introduction of the Barber/Morgan series to be modern with WWII being the cutoff point for &quot;modern-modern&quot; coins.There are those that believe the first really modern U.S. Coins were those that replaced the Indian Head-Barber stuff,namely the Lincoln/Buffalo/ Mercury/Standing Liberty/Walkers series..There is a good case to be made there.</p><p>These are my &quot;imaginary&quot; borders and not necessarily accurate in a historical sense,just how I mentally assess how old a coin is relative to others in that part of my collection.:kewl:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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