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<p>[QUOTE="Deacon Ray, post: 7927870, member: 81896"]<font face="Georgia"><font size="7">“<span style="color: #ff0000">A</span></font><font size="5">nd now my beauties, something with poison in it I think, with poison in it, but attractive to the eye and soothing to the smell . . . poppies, poppies, poppies will put them to sleep.”</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><i>—The Wicked Witch of the West, The Wizard of Oz (movie, released 1939)</i></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><b>I find this to be an amazing coin. The caduceus (<i>symbol of physicians and medicine — in the U.S.A. only I’m told</i>) combined with the image of the poppy (<i>symbol of sleep, dreams, peace, death, pain relief, and for too many — drug addiction.</i>)</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><b>[ATTACH=full]1370231[/ATTACH] </b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><b>Please post your coins and your thoughts, your poppies, your caducei, and coins featuring the messenger of the gods — Mercury.</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="4"></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Deacon Ray, post: 7927870, member: 81896"][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=7]“[COLOR=#ff0000]A[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=5]nd now my beauties, something with poison in it I think, with poison in it, but attractive to the eye and soothing to the smell . . . poppies, poppies, poppies will put them to sleep.”[/SIZE] [SIZE=4] [I]—The Wicked Witch of the West, The Wizard of Oz (movie, released 1939)[/I][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=4] [B]I find this to be an amazing coin. The caduceus ([I]symbol of physicians and medicine — in the U.S.A. only I’m told[/I]) combined with the image of the poppy ([I]symbol of sleep, dreams, peace, death, pain relief, and for too many — drug addiction.[/I])[/B] [B][ATTACH=full]1370231[/ATTACH] [/B] [B]Please post your coins and your thoughts, your poppies, your caducei, and coins featuring the messenger of the gods — Mercury.[/B] [/SIZE][/FONT][/QUOTE]
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