> > Pennsylvania -- in a state with the Liberty Bell and so many other great potential images, I feel they coulda done better. Kinda dull. C.
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> Yeah, I agree. They could've done better than to put a god(specifically, Mercury, I think; correct me if I misidentified) on it.
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> Nyper"Not fond of Greco-Roman gods... or any other gods but one, for that matter"old

Oh come now, thats getting down right silly intollerant. I don't know much about Pennsilvainia symbols, but the Greco-Roman gods are used as symbols through out the western world, maybe he is in the State Seal or something like that. They arn't asking you to worship him, if they were they couldn't put it on the coin. The Greeko-Roman gods are part of the Heritage of Western Civilization, I think learing about them is important to learning about the history of our culture.

Myself, I love to look at mythology from the Greekes, Norse, and any other ancient panthion. The stories are exciting and help a person to understand the nature of the ancient culture. You can learn a lot about a people by what they hold sacered. For instance, Ares, the Greek god of War was a negative force, kind of a mad dog roveing killer. But Mars, the Roman recasting of Ares, is one of the preminit gods, the nobel warrior. The disticntion is becasue of the nature of war for each culture, the Greeks lived in individual city states, despite the fact it they worshipped the same Gods they never really got along, so war's would always leave oneside devistated, if not both. In Rome war was the nature the Empire expanded, the glory of Rome came from its legions, so war was a benifit to the society.

Speed'mythology buff, didn't like the coin though, boring'ball