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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1010128, member: 26302&quot;]I think the Sassanid has more to do with their lack of silver, and hammering out old and contemporary silver coins, than a real desire to have large thin coins. After a time they became accepted shape of money, even leading to all Islamic coins of the same design, but I think initially they were shaped that way simply to use existing coins and ensure there was no trace of the undertype. Metallurgy tests have traced the silver to first Parthian issues then Roman ones for many Sassanid issues.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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