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<p>[QUOTE="LaCointessa, post: 2745746, member: 87186"][USER=4298]@Cucumbor[/USER] - (I love cucumbers and eat them almost every day!) Thank you for the 'welcome.'</p><p>But, nooooo! That's not it either.</p><p><br /></p><p>I want to thank you because I was studying the vocabulary (which I printed out without photographs) of ancient coins (from FORVM ANCIENT COINS) and I came across caduceus. I wanted to see how it looked with the wings and how it differed from the symbol generally still accepted to represent the practice of the medical arts.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am wondering what that feature is to the left of the portrait on the obverse. Is that an olive? I can't make it out.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=75525]@rrdenarius[/USER] = Also, about that Apollo coin. I've done a quick search; but, am not seeing what the legend (is it a legend or an arrow tip?) to the left of the portrait? And also, what are those three things bundled together with wings on the Mars coin? a harpa? a pedum? Not a clue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="LaCointessa, post: 2745746, member: 87186"][USER=4298]@Cucumbor[/USER] - (I love cucumbers and eat them almost every day!) Thank you for the 'welcome.' But, nooooo! That's not it either. I want to thank you because I was studying the vocabulary (which I printed out without photographs) of ancient coins (from FORVM ANCIENT COINS) and I came across caduceus. I wanted to see how it looked with the wings and how it differed from the symbol generally still accepted to represent the practice of the medical arts. I am wondering what that feature is to the left of the portrait on the obverse. Is that an olive? I can't make it out. [USER=75525]@rrdenarius[/USER] = Also, about that Apollo coin. I've done a quick search; but, am not seeing what the legend (is it a legend or an arrow tip?) to the left of the portrait? And also, what are those three things bundled together with wings on the Mars coin? a harpa? a pedum? Not a clue.[/QUOTE]
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