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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1631815, member: 19463&quot;]I hope everyone paid attention to Bart9349&#039;s post on this being a temporary trial in modern coin production.&nbsp; I have three Elizabeth 6d coins and the milled one is the earliest of the three.&nbsp; Several more kings will come and go before England returns to the milled idea and abandons the hammer.&nbsp; I really do not know where to draw the line between medieval and modern England.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another coinage that needs to be mentioned in this regard is that of Russia.&nbsp; When it comes to being medieval, the &#039;wire&#039; money of Ivan the Terrible seems properly placed.&nbsp; However after looking at very few coins you start seeing what appears to be die duplicates.&nbsp; It turns out that they made duplicate dies (hubbing) so there are actually many dies striking identical designs just like we do in the modern era.&nbsp; These &#039;ancient&#039; looking scraps of silver turn out to be very high tech and modern in their own way.&nbsp; Looking at a Peter I wire of 1600, it is hard not to see the past.&nbsp; The same Tsar blew a whistle and ended the past in his country in many ways.&nbsp; One was his issue of very modern large silver rubles.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>We return to the fact that history does not break into neat, conveniently labelled chunks.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]233335.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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