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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 4597208, member: 51347&quot;]I kinda like the argument that Caesar had been fighting the Gauls whom used the Carnyx.&nbsp; I have a hard time truly understanding the Snake symbolism.</p><p><br /></p><p>Every Caesar Elephant coin that I have seen had a head with other &quot;frills&quot;, which are NOT on a normal snake.&nbsp; However, a Carnyx has a dragon style head.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I can just see the battlefields in Gaul.&nbsp; My hoards of Celtic Kinsmen with Carnyces blaring the deep bellows, blasting chaotic bleats and bellows across the battlefields, creating confusion, and hyping up the Warriors!&nbsp; Caesar eventually defeats them, and insults the Gauls by smashing and crushing the Carnyces, like a Elephant crushing them.&nbsp; I can get this interpretation as I make it up...</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not opposed to either snake or carnyx, if I can truly be convinced of the symbolism.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In NO WAY am I an expert.&nbsp; Please feel free to totally refute!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1138578[/ATTACH]</p><p>RImp Albinus Bruti AR Den 48 BC Mars Carnyces Cr 450-1a</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1138579[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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