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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Neal, post: 3031655, member: 43872&quot;]&quot;Medieval&quot; is a concept invented by Europeans in the 1800&#039;s to describe changes in European culture.&nbsp; It has no relevance to other cultures.&nbsp; As has been noted, some other cultures were experiencing golden ages during this period.&nbsp; Also, the beginning and ending dates are somewhat arbitrary, even for Rome.&nbsp; At what point did the total number of Germanic invaders qualify to be called a change in epoch?&nbsp; It was accomplished over a period of centuries and was greater in some areas than in others.&nbsp; Likewise, it can be argued the Renaissance began in Northern Italy almost four centuries before it reached Russia, making 17th century Russian coins more like &quot;ancient&quot; and 14th century Italian coins clearly Medieval.</p><p><br /></p><p>For me the difference in coins is more the style and sophistication of the coins themselves.&nbsp; While anything before, say A.D. 500, seems like ancient, (speaking mainly of European coins), the date is really fuzzy and some later coins are ancient, some earlier ones more crude like Medieval.&nbsp; Not much produced later than that approaches the style of &quot;ancient&quot; Greek and Roman coins.&nbsp; I know Byzantine coins are usually classed as ancients (that&#039;s where I put my few Byzantine coins for lack of a better place), but to me they are mostly more like Medieval in their crude figures and iconography.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For other cultures, little of this applies.&nbsp; The coins of Wang Mang of China (AD 9-23) look very like the Qing Dynasty coins of 1911.&nbsp; Some coins of the states of India look more like Medieval into the 19th Century.</p><p><br /></p><p>Machine-made coins, even if crude, are clearly modern for the purposes of this division.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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