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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 8393456, member: 98035&quot;]Interesting ask - and there&#039;s quite a few ways to approach it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Going by the traditional cutoff of September 4, 476, the closest I can get in an absolute sense is Basiliscus, who ruled January 475 - August 476</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1489433[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Just going by the Western emperors, for me it&#039;s Anthemius, 467-472</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1489434[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Numismatically the Roman currency in the East remained unchanged until Anastasius&#039; reforms in 491</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1489435[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And in the East it clung on for a few more decades under the Goths and Vandals. Byzantine Italy was reformed pretty quickly, but Carthage continued to mint the small nummi for several years under Justinian, this VOT XIII is assumed to refer to his 13th regnal year, 539-540</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1489436[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The further East you go, the more fuzzy it gets.</p><p><br /></p><p>East of Byzantium, the Sasanians ruled uninterrupted until the Arab takeover in 651</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1489437[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>In India, the tradition of minting ~2g silver (later billon) drachms continued until the late 8th century under the Maitrakas of Vallabhi[ATTACH=full]1489438[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Similarly, to the north in Khwarezm, the Afrighid dynasty continued to make coins in the tradition that had started as imitations of Bactrian tetradrachms, and persisted even after the Muslim takeover, until the late 10th century</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1489441[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Back in India, the Malwa Gadhaiya paisa represented the last iteration of the Attic drachm from Athens &gt; Alexander &gt; Seleucids &gt; Parthians &gt; Sassanians &gt; Huns &gt; India, where it persisted until the end of the 13th or early 14th century, although it would have been unrecognizable as a drachm by that point</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1489451[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>If the Jital can be argued to be a type of drachm, that lasted even later, I think until the 14th or 15th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>I need to get my example imaged, but Imperial China continued to make traditionally cast cash until Puye was deposed in 1912. Vietnam continued until 1945.</p><p><br /></p><p>My last hammered coin (and I think possibly the very last anywhere?) Was from the Indian Princely State of Bundi, who minted for every British monarch between Victoria and George V, before the mint closed up shop in 1932. This one is VS 1982 / AD 1925</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1489452[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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