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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1534416, member: 19463&quot;]Those of us who are used to Roman coins have trouble with the way the Indian coins worked in a metal sense.&nbsp; Rome started debasing their coins and change weight standards frequently.&nbsp; The Indian coins weighed about the same over many centuries and took centuries to drop in silver content rather than months or years like the Romans.&nbsp; These later things were crude in some ways and got thick and chunky as the fashion changed from Sasanian thin to lumps that contained half of the die design at best.&nbsp; They also never took to the need of updating legends and dates on a regular basis so we have millions of coins that look very much alike.&nbsp; It is amazing how different cultures saw the needs of money.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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