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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1027213, member: 57463&quot;]Well, it was all legal back then.&nbsp; In fact, I believe that one of the reasons for the many mint errors -- numerals struck sideways and off place -- was that men came to work high on opiates and other drugs.&nbsp; You could buy paregoric and people gave it to infants, creating instant re-addiction in adulthood.&nbsp; Since it was legal, there was no criminal consequence... just errors in workmanship.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>HIS</b> feet.&nbsp; Mercury to the Romans is congruent with Hermes of hte Greeks and Thoth of the Egytians, but only approximately so.&nbsp; Hermes had other chores, and Mercury&#039;s life story was different from Thoth&#039;s, and so on.&nbsp; Hermes and Mercury were both messengers.&nbsp; They wore traveler&#039;s caps, called a &quot;petasos&quot; in Greek, a broad-brimmed hat with a short round cap.&nbsp; Mercury had more of a floppy hat.&nbsp; The hats protected against rain and sun both.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The caduceus is also the result of mixed images, at once the staff of a messenger and that of a doctor.&nbsp; The messenger had a staff with white cloth (hence the &quot;wings&quot;) as a sign of neutrality for crossing battlefields or taking messages from side to side.&nbsp; The serpents of Asclepius (god of medical healing; originally a real person, it seems), were appended to Mercury&#039;s staff later.&nbsp; Hard to say why...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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