I have already had three, and I have the fourth one later today. But I keep this coin with me for encouragement in times such as these. The obverse portrays (what I believe to be) Pallor, the goddess of fear. She seems applicable for a major test week. Oh and I am taking four classes this semester. All four decided to have an exam this week. Post whatever you want. As an added bonus, after my first exam, my professor gave us a two-day advanced notice of the homework due date, so I didn't have this weekend to do it like I was planning. It is due in 40 minutes...
Hi, After graduating university many years ago, I still have those dreams where I find myself in the middle of an exam for which I have done any study and am completley unprepared. I can promise you that your exams will come to an end eventually (unless you choose a profession where you have to keep undertaking further study), but I cannot promise those dreams will go away... I have done the same thing - taken a coin into an exam or an adverse or hostile situation, both for luck, and also as you put it, for some encouragement / confidence.
i still dream about that also! now i have more dreams however where i'm teaching a class that i have and i have no idea what i'm doing...lol! awesome, haunting coin...one of these is on the list!
The obverse is described as "Head of Gallia" in references. The most classes I ever took in a semester was six...I was at school from 9 am to 9 pm M-W-F
Yes, it is. However, Lucius Saserna established temples for the goddess Pallor and the god Pavor some time after he minted these coins. This shows that he considered these gods particularly important and special. Saserna issued three coins, two of which had haunting figures on the obverse, one being male and the other female. I think it is more than just a coincidence that he chose to include these portaits on his coins. This is why I theorize that the obverse portrait is of Pallor, or Gallia portrayed as Pallor.
the male type is often referred to as being Vercingetorix. It is not a coincidence at all when taken in context of what was happening at the time...the Gallic Wars were recently finished.
Yup. To the left on the obverse of my coin is a Gallic trumpet, clear evidence that these coins were issued in response to the Gallic Wars. But is it not possible that Saserna chose to portray Gallia and Vercingetorix as Pallor and Pavor out of jest?
you know the saying "anything is possible" but there is another saying -- "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"
Fair enough. I guess my case is similar to the coin that supposedly depicts the Milvian Bridge. It cannot be definitively proved one way or another.
when researching ancient coins (or anything) always keep occam's razor in mind- "Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected" or K.I.S.S.
Absolutely. And I say this as someone who liked university study so much that I dragged my graduate education out for more than a decade. It took ten or fifteen years for the exam/midterm dreams to trail off, although you can never be sure they're quite done.
First, let me say I have earned two degrees and it took me 23 years after secondary school to get the last (how's that for procrastination?). I fretted over exams to the point of nervous breakdowns. And still I have nightmares of various test situations once in a while (but then again I have vivid dreams most every night). Good luck with the exams.
Yeah, I was in University during the STREAKING craze... Yeah, I STREAKED an Exam... (LOL, Sorry Bing...)
