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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1458326, member: 39&quot;]If we define &quot;modern&quot; as something that does not meet our individual design taste buds, then a discussion makes hardly any sense. Fortunately our coins today do not look like coins of the 19th or 20th century. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> In European history we could say there is Ancient (before 500), Medieval (500-1500), and Modern (after 1500) - give a century here, take one there.</p><p><br /></p><p>We could apply that to coins and say that &quot;modern&quot; coinage starts with the Guldiner and Taler coins. But since coins were not really used much in medieval Europe, drawing that line does not seem very helpful to me. In France we could say that modern coinage begins with the end of the Ancien Régime. Another good dividing line for many European countries is roughly 1950. In arts and architecture many use the term &quot;modern&quot; when referring to a phase that ended about 100 years ago, but I have not heard or read about postmodern coinage. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> So for me modern European coinage covers the time between some point in the middle of the previous century and today. Comes in handy also because I primarily collect from that period ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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