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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1990410, member: 26302&quot;]Wwe have discussed this here before. Personally, I find it depends on the civilization/area of the world. In Europe, traditionally the cutoff if the fall of the western roman empire in 476. However, Byzantine coins are frequently collected by ancient collectors, since it was a continuation of rome in the east. These ended in 1453. For the middle east and central asia, the typical cutoff is the rise of Islam from 630 to around 700 ad. Preislamic coins are usually considered ancient. For China, I consider it pre-Tang dynasty coins, so up until 620 ad. There are reasons beyond a arbitrary cutoff in such things, since the thing that denotes &quot;non-ancient&quot; in these examples significantly and forever altered the civilizations. </p><p><br /></p><p>Everyone will have different opinions of course, but these are my &quot;cutoffs&quot;. However, I do not cut anything off, collecting Byzantine and dark age coins just as readily as ancients. Except for Byzantines, usually anything past 1000 ad is too new for me for my ancient collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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