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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 2737880, member: 83845&quot;]Putting dates to such transitions is tricky but I largely agree with what [USER=81887]@Parthicus[/USER] said above.&nbsp; For me it&#039;s convenient to think of some of the watershed events in history as the demarcation for the different eras.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sept. 4, AD 476 - Odocer forces the last Roman Emperor (Romulus Augustulus) to abdicate. - The end of ancient coinage and beginning of medieval.</p><p><br /></p><p>May 29, AD 1453 - Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Turks under Memhed II ending the Eastern Roman Empire - The end of medieval and beginning of early modern coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Renaissance is tricky to define depending if you are talking in terms of art or science and has some overlap with the above but a good couple of place holder dates for me are;</p><p><br /></p><p>Ca. AD 1320 - Dante Alighieri completes the Divine Comedy - Beginning of the Renaissance.</p><p><br /></p><p>January 8, 1642 - Galileo dies - end of the Renaissance.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course others will have different thoughts about the eras and if you asked a US collector what a &quot;modern&quot; coin is they would probably say post 1964 (the end of the silver standard in the US)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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