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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2467351, member: 76194"]Some ancient coins do have "dates" of sort on them. For example, Caracala loved to put dates on his coins. The XX on the reverse dates this to the 20th and last year of his reign, so we can narrow the strike date for this coin to a few months in the year 217 CE.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]518282[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>While others, you'd be lucky to narrow to a few decades or centuries, like this Islamic issue of the Almohads. It would have been minted sometime in a hundred year period between the 12th and 13th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]518283[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I've seen some ancient coins that can be dated almost precisely to the month they were struck, and others where all we know for sure is that it could have been minted any time within a 300 year time span.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2467351, member: 76194"]Some ancient coins do have "dates" of sort on them. For example, Caracala loved to put dates on his coins. The XX on the reverse dates this to the 20th and last year of his reign, so we can narrow the strike date for this coin to a few months in the year 217 CE. [ATTACH=full]518282[/ATTACH] While others, you'd be lucky to narrow to a few decades or centuries, like this Islamic issue of the Almohads. It would have been minted sometime in a hundred year period between the 12th and 13th century. [ATTACH=full]518283[/ATTACH] I've seen some ancient coins that can be dated almost precisely to the month they were struck, and others where all we know for sure is that it could have been minted any time within a 300 year time span.[/QUOTE]
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