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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KIWITI, post: 2233968, member: 75018&quot;]It is quite an interesting coin, congrats! I always liked it because of the goose looking backwards. </p><p>Carradice and Price mention in their book &quot;Coinage in the Greek World&quot; that such a motif was intended for a technical reason, that is: uniformity of the design over the flan. </p><p>But I also have a theory. Recently, while visiting a museum which used to be a house to an spanish viceroy in Cordoba (Argentina), I found a grafitti with THIS VERY SAME BACKWARD-LOOKING GOOSE on a wall of one of the slave houses. It was, so they say, a common motif for grafittis among african slaves and it was meant to remind everyone of their origins. The goose is looking to his ancestors and its birth place.&nbsp; </p><p>I know, it is too far-fetched to believe it. Different eras, different cultures, etc...but it is the same goose, so it is plausible. Shouldn´t be discarded. Perhaps Eion was making reference to its metropolis Eretria?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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