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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FitzNigel, post: 2499393, member: 74712&quot;]I&#039;ve been reading Peter Spufford&#039;s <i>Money and its use in Medieval Europe</i>, and he commented on how the coins became increasingly thinner but larger in the East because of Islamic iconoclasm, and the desire to fit more inscriptions on the coin.&nbsp; The thinness in turn would be copied by Western Europe (through Spain into France I believe) during Carolingian rule.&nbsp; Hence the thinness of medieval coins - yet it&#039;s all still based off the Roman Denari - Dirham - Denier.&nbsp; Very cool you have some examples showing this shift!</p><p><br /></p><p>Edited for typos/blasted auto-correct[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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