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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3211176, member: 19463&quot;]Congratulations to your son.&nbsp; Bing&#039;s coin brings up a point I always enjoy because of its connection to the US Army and the medical profession.&nbsp; Something like a hundred years ago an Army officer got a bit confused and decided the Medical Corps should use the two snake symbol of Hermes/Mercury when he should have selected the one snake staff as carried by the god of medicine Asclepius.&nbsp; In recent decades, many but not all, medical groups have corrected the error but we still see the caduceus with too many snakes used by people who should know better.</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/th-jpg.833442/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Asclepius is shown on provincials of Caracalla from Serdica and of Gordian III from Hadrianopolis.&nbsp; One snake.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]833792[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]833790[/ATTACH] </p><p>Hermes on Gordian from Philippolis has two snakes:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]833793[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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