This question / topic for discussion is aimed for our European and Asian continent bound friends.
It seems to me that a lot of the coins dug up from the middle ages and earlier are of really poor manufacturing. Coins are only mostly round, sometimes oval, sometimes they have edges or cracks to them, stamping that is badly off-centered, etc.
It seems to me an industrious person of the time could easily create their own mint and stamp out a few thousand of them. Does anyone know the coinage history and if counterfeiting was a major problem during that time?
The coins from the Russian thread (circa 1700s) seem to be more intricately designed (ridges on the edge of the coin, intricate patterns), still they look to be off-centered when stamped.
It seems to me that a lot of the coins dug up from the middle ages and earlier are of really poor manufacturing. Coins are only mostly round, sometimes oval, sometimes they have edges or cracks to them, stamping that is badly off-centered, etc.
It seems to me an industrious person of the time could easily create their own mint and stamp out a few thousand of them. Does anyone know the coinage history and if counterfeiting was a major problem during that time?
The coins from the Russian thread (circa 1700s) seem to be more intricately designed (ridges on the edge of the coin, intricate patterns), still they look to be off-centered when stamped.
