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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1392842, member: 19463&quot;]I agree with everything posted above including the points on which they differ. There is no solid date for stopping a collection of ancients but some coins are &#039;more ancient&#039; than others.&nbsp; Certainly everything before c.500 AD can be called ancient but after that we get into differences in societies and coins that might be more or less medieval if you want to make that distinction.&nbsp; When I started my website in 1997 I still believed that coins were collectible only if they were made before 500 AD and from Europe but now I am interested in later things and things farther East.&nbsp; There was no really good place to draw a line so it is better just to collect what interests you.</p><p><br /></p><p>To be interesting to me a coin first and foremost must have been made to circulate as money (no non circulating legal tender).&nbsp; 95% of my coins are struck with a hammer between dies with no machinery and no collar to make them round.&nbsp; The others were cast or produced in other &#039;old&#039; ways but not machine struck or pressed.&nbsp; We all make our own rules.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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