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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1458353, member: 112&quot;]I&#039;m kind of with Roy on this one - different countries, different dates.</p><p><br /></p><p>I used to have what I thought was more clear cut ideas on this. But the longer I am involved with coins the more the lines seem to blur for me. And I no longer think that ancient, medieval and modern quite cut it. I&#039;m thinking more and more that we need to break those primary categories down into additional sub-categories. And sometimes even break those down further still.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I&#039;m beginning to think that the basic style of coinage, kind of like Prince is suggesting, should form the lines of demarcation instead of dates. It might be interesting sometime to sit down and build a diagram of the coinage tree, country by country, defined by the style of coinage changes and accompany those changes with dates as well. For the most part these style changes are quite demonstrable. </p><p><br /></p><p>But one thing for me will not change, at least I cannot see it ever changing. That would be the end of the medieval period. For me that kind of has to be 1643 when milled coinage first came into being. It wasn&#039;t really the end of hammered coins, except in France. But it was sure the beginning of the end worldwide.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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