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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bradley Trotter, post: 6364570, member: 101226&quot;]Here’s a very informative article I found on a site hosted by Forvm Ancient Coins that sums up the significance of poppies on ancient coins quite nicely.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Their colorful flowers were commonly seen in amongst the grain crops, and that is because the seeds are stimulated to germinate by scratching and scraping such as is caused by plowing. So poppy heads were always associated with corn in the worship of <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/reverse_corn.html#CERES" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/reverse_corn.html#CERES" rel="nofollow">Ceres</a>, the Roman equivalent of Demeter.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/reverse_corn.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/reverse_corn.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/reverse_corn.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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