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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;petronius, post: 2739316, member: 37365&quot;]No, of course.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In Italy we call &quot;modern&quot; (or, better to say,</p><p>&quot;contemporary&quot;) the coins from 1800 to date, and metal it&#039;s not so important for beginning or end of an age.</p><p>We struck silver for circulation (500 lire) until 1967, when a rise in the silver price caused their massive tesaurization, making them disappear from circulation, but this date does not matter to us.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I don&#039;t know what happens in another european countries, but I think that, for example, in Great Britain, the beginning of modern coins could be 1971, when they introduced the decimal system...and so on.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And for us, the Middle Age ends with discovery of America <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>petronius <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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