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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4566867, member: 110350&quot;]Regarding the drapery, OK, you guys win!&nbsp; But how do you know that she doesn&#039;t keep her snake in there?!</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding Caesar&#039;s elephant/snake coin, someone recently tried to tell me on Facebook that there&#039;s a legitimate controversy as to whether that&#039;s supposed to be a snake or a carnyx.&nbsp; I&#039;m highly skeptical! I&#039;ve seen lots of photos of different examples of the coin, and it doesn&#039;t look to me like a carnyx in any of them. Harlan argues vigorously in his Roman Republican Moneyers book not only that it&#039;s a snake, but that the coin is pro-snake, not pro-elephant as most people assume. He has various reasons, including the positive view of snakes in Rome.&nbsp; Which sounds like your point, although I haven&#039;t yet read the thread you cite.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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