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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 5227474, member: 10461&quot;]Those are indeed sharp looking!</p><p><br /></p><p>Elymais, right?</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit- aha.&nbsp; Yes.&nbsp; Thanks, [USER=81887]@Parthicus[/USER].</p><p><br /></p><p>I often privately refer to the coins with those dot- or dash-like ornamentations on the otherwise plain reverse as &quot;strawberries&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>You see, the dot-thingies remind me of the &quot;seeds&quot; (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achene" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achene" rel="nofollow">achenes</a>)* on a strawberry.</p><p><br /></p><p>But don&#039;t worry, I don&#039;t call them &quot;strawberries&quot; in mixed company, at least until now.&nbsp; Just inside my own head. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Garden_strawberry_%28Fragaria_%C3%97_ananassa%29_single.jpg/220px-Garden_strawberry_%28Fragaria_%C3%97_ananassa%29_single.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">(*I also had no idea that those things on a strawberry were called &quot;achenes&quot; until just now, when I looked that up.)</font></p><p><br /></p><p>So what are the the dot-dash things on the coins called, and why are they there?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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