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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 3047054, member: 74834&quot;]Thanks for showing these coins and for all your remarks (e.g., about the filled die. Thus some sort of dirt on the die was the cause of some letters being vague? Of course, that&#039;s it.).</p><p><br /></p><p>I always wondered about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Erciyes" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Erciyes" rel="nofollow">the mountain</a> on the coin and the way it is rendered. Those spearpoints over the rounded boulders - like cypresses on a Tuscany hill - can&#039;t mean trees, on a volcano of 12000 feet .</p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose it had a religious meaning - a large volcano ten miles south of the town. Extinct as far as we know, but reading up I learnt that there are Roman coins that show the volcano with a pillar of smoke. Maybe that&#039;s what this coin of the year 5 shows with its star on top of the mountain: an active volcano. A large city on the spur of an awakening volcano (with accompanying earthquakes) would have cause to worry.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]761558[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Mount Argaeus (now Erciyes)</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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