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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevex6, post: 1970628, member: 44183&quot;]<span style="color: #0000ff">Ummm, I got bored ... plus, I wasn&#039;t quite ready to let this coin-thread die (I love this coin ... it is very cool)</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">So, here is a cool tale ... </span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: #000000">Scylla and Charybdis were mythical sea monsters noted by Homer; later Greek tradition sited them on opposite sides of the Strait of Messina between Sicily and the Italian mainland. Scylla was rationalized as a rock shoal (described as a six-headed sea monster) on the Italian side of the strait and Charybdis was a whirlpool off the coast of Sicily. They were regarded as a sea hazard located close enough to each other that they posed an inescapable threat to passing sailors; avoiding Charybdis meant passing too close to Scylla and vice versa. According to Homer, Odysseus was forced to choose which monster to confront while passing through the strait; he opted to pass by Scylla and lose only a few sailors, rather than risk the loss of his entire ship in the whirlpool</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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