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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;philologus_1, post: 7941256, member: 92212&quot;]It never dawned on me how utterly prevalent the cornucopia was on ancient coins. Wowsers! I started going through my coins chronologically (beginning with the oldest), pasting images of my coins with that device into one large image, so that I could post it on this thread. But I stopped when I got to 23 because I had not even made it up to my Judaean and Nabatean coins yet. I have a veritable cornucopia of cornucopias. :-o</p><p><br /></p><p>However...</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve noticed through the years that numismatic descriptions sometimes use this spelling: cornucopia<u>e</u>.&nbsp; And I&#039;ve also noticed that when two of this &#039;thing&#039; we call cornucopia are paired together on the same coin type, some numismatic descriptions cite it as &quot;double-cornucopia&quot;, and others cite &quot;double cornucopia<u>s</u>&quot;. (Might any grammarian want to weigh in on that?) And still others use &quot;double cornucpia<u>e</u>&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>And so...</p><p><br /></p><p>I searched a certain online site which typically proves to hold a cornucopia of interesting information related to ancient coins, and I found a thread in which [USER=83956]@Gavin Richardson[/USER] and [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] explain the interesting Latin backgrounds of our modern day spellings.</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/corny-question-ric-and-cornucopiae.300319/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/corny-question-ric-and-cornucopiae.300319/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/corny-question-ric-and-cornucopiae.300319/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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