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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 5132187, member: 82322&quot;]The Seleukids depicted anchors with the flukes on top, like this:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1204192[/ATTACH] </p><p>Seleukos I Nikator. 312-281 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 16.82 g). In the name of Alexander III of Macedon. Ekbatana mint.</p><p><i>SC</i> 202.12; <i>Price</i> 3938</p><p>Classical Numismatic Group, auction e-391, February 2017, lot 299.</p><p>Note: This is the Wildwinds.com example.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anchors are stored this way when they are hung over a hook on a wall.&nbsp; People would have imagined them like that, not as cartoons dragging the sea bed the way our culture usually imagines them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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