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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 2923697, member: 15588&quot;]&quot;Modern&quot; is one of those terms that&#039;s pretty hard to pin down. I once read a history of philosophy published in the 20th century that considered Machiavelli (1469 - 1527) &quot;modern.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>UK coins have one huge divide, Spink now even puts them into separate catalogs: pre-decimal and decimal. In 1971 (&quot;Decimal Day&quot;) the UK went from the nearly ancient division of pounds into 240 pence (and 12 pence to a shilling and 20 shillings to a pound) to a newer decimal system in which a pound equaled 100 pence.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some would probably consider the decimal issues &quot;modern.&quot; A 1925 farthing falls some 50 years before decimalization, so I&#039;m not really sure, but it still seems &quot;modern&quot; on many levels. It&#039;s not hammered, for one, and it has the basic layout of current UK coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is one of those things that the right people, or perhaps the wrong people, could probably discuss until their tongues go numb.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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