Dear readers Numismatica Ranieri, today's article is dedicated to discover the types and themes of the collection in the coin, which is very useful for establishing the correct currency on which to focus, if you'd like to make a good investment in rare coins for example.
Types and themes of the collection in numismatics
Given the enormous amount of types coin issued in a span of over two millennia each collector can — or perhaps it would be better to say should limit their collection to a certain time period; in practice to define which type of collection to take.
The four periods that attach to the coinage are the following:
- the ancient or classical (Greek, roman republican, roman imperial);
- the middle ages (from the carolingian age to the discovery of America);
- the modern, from the discovery of America to the French revolution);
- the contemporary (from the French revolution to the present day).
The coinage of the byzantine constitutes a separate chapter as to "horse" two historical periods such as the ancient and the medieval. For this reason, it has always been difficult to give her a place unique. It is wrong to hold on to the byzantine coins as belonging only to the ancient period; the theory of the Grierson, who believes it to be parallel to the medieval is, in this respect, certainly among the best. While the approach to the coinage of the classical and medieval is the most challenging, both from the cultural point of view, from the financial, to the modern and contemporary, you can reach out with greater ease.
A speech deserves the issue. Also the theme is a system to restrict their field of interestbut who set a collection following a theme is not necessarily bound to a particular period.
A classic example we provide some types of coin, such as the shield, coined for about 500 years, or in the particular representations that can appear on the small bronze greco and twenty centuries on the shoulders and on the coin nickel, minted in the year and maybe from a foreign Country. All of these themes are very nice and give a personal address to a gathering.
These are some of the issues the most common.
Types of coin:
- Shield of gold
- Shield in silver
- (plates, shields, dollars,ducats)
- Testone
- Marengo
- Luigino
- Sestertius
- Denarius
- Gold
Depictions:
- Portraits
- Coats of arms
- Saints
- Animals
- Bridges
- Churches
- Deities and personifications
- Mythological characters
- Families and Dynasties (Savoy, Papi)
Conclusions
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