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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Codera, post: 8620832, member: 70631&quot;]It&#039;s hard to say when antiquity ends and when medieval times begin so I put in three contenders:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. My youngest coin (ironically the very first ancient coin I bought) before the fall of the Western Empire in 476, which is often cited as the end of antiquity:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1515502[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Constans, 9 September 337 - 19 January 350 A.D.</b></p><p>Bronze AE 3, RIC VIII Thessalonica 120, LRBC II 1642, SRCV 18732, Cohen VII 10, F, corrosion, encrustation, 2.493g, 18.6mm, 180o, Thessalonica (Salonika, Greece) mint, 348 - 350 A.D.; obverse D N CONSTA-NS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right; reverse FEL TEMP REPARATIO (happy times restored), Constans standing left on galley, holding labarum and Phoenix on globe, Victory seated in stern steering ship, TES[...] in exergue;</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Youngest coin before the end of late antiquity, around the time when the Muslims arrive as a major player on the world stage and this emperor just so happens to be the ruler who witnessed it:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1515503[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Byzantine Empire, Heraclius &amp; Heraclius Constantine, 23 January 613 - 11 January 641 A.D.</b></p><p>Gold solidus, Wroth BMC 76; Tolstoi 410; DOC II-1 44f (no examples in the collection, refs Wroth); SBCV 770; Hahn MIB 53; Sommer 11.35; Morrisson BnF -, aEF, luster, tight flan, graffiti on obverse and reverse, 4.336g, 19.3mm, 180o, 8th officina, Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) mint, 639(?) - 641; obverse Heraclius in center taller with mustache, long beard; standing with Heraclius Constantine on right, Heraclonas on left, sons beardless and equal height, all wear crown, chlamys and tablion ornamented with pellets, and hold globus cruciger in right; reverse VICTORIA AVGu H (victory of the Emperor, 8th officina), cross potent on three steps, Heraclian monogram <img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/images/SBM21.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> left, E right, CONOB in exergue;</p><p><br /></p><p>3.Youngest coin from a civilization that lived through antiquity, so technically not even &quot;ancient&quot; anymore, it&#039;s pretty firmly medieval, but it&#039;s from the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire (I also just want an excuse to show it off since it&#039;s beautiful and I haven&#039;t shown it on this site yet):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1515504[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Byzantine Anonymous Follis of Christ, Class A3, Basil II &amp; Constantine VIII, c. 1023 - 11 November 1028 A.D.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Bronze anonymous follis, Anonymous follis of Christ, DOC III-2, class A3; SBCV 1818; Grierson-NumisWiki ornaments F1c, gVF, attractive bust of Christ, tight ragged flan, bumps and marks, edge chip, 8.514g, 27.9mm, 270o, Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) mint, c. 1023 - 11 Nov 1028 A.D.; obverse + EMMANOVHL (romanized Hebrew - God is with us), facing bust of Christ, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium, and colobium, holding gospels with both hands, IC - XC (Greek abbreviation: Ihsoús Xristós - Jesus Christ) across field; reverse + IhSuS / XRISTuS / bASILEu / bASILE (Greek: Jesus Christ King of Kings), ornamentation above and below inscription; <b>unpublished variety</b>;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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