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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1534432, member: 26302&quot;]True. I simply view it as the &quot;Indianization&quot; of the culture. After a few centuries the culture and history of why things were done a certain way gives way to the current culture they were living in. </p><p><br /></p><p>The only reason the Sassanid coins were thin to begin with was that they used Parthian and Roman silver coins as bases, and hammered them thin to obliterate the design under Ardashir. This style of coinage then became the norm for the Sassanids, and later the Islamic conquerers of Persia.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Persians in India simply forgot &quot;why&quot; coins had to be flat and thin, and started making their coins like others around them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thats how I have always viewed it at least. I could be completely wrong.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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