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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3031215, member: 19463&quot;]I tend to agree with ycon as far as defining what I collect.&nbsp; I avoid coins made with machines; I like hand struck coins that vary greatly from the ones struck before and after them on the same day in the same shop.&nbsp; Machine duplicated coins are modern in my mind.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I do not like the entire concept of pigeonholing history into periods and believe that teachers who still teach things like 476 AD need to retire.&nbsp; The main problem is that ancient &#039;spirit&#039; coinage lasted longer in some places than others.&nbsp; I consider the thin silver coins with more emphasis on legends made with punches to be medieval even if they are older than other coins made more in the old style somewhere else.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For years it seemed odd that ancient collectors would include all Byzantine coins in their collection but would not touch issues of other states that interfaced with the Byzantines.&nbsp; That makes no more sense to me today but I am used to it now and no longer worry about labels.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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