(urth) The Two Coins...

[David Stockhoff]

Definitely Hildegrin. Or someone working for him, paid in Vodalus' coin, 
who is more likely to flee.

I always mistrusted the assessment of those coins as false, but that's 
just me being suspicious. It would certainly be interesting if there was 
a coin with Severian's face on it before he was Autarch, but I don't 
recall that. Are you sure, Ryan?

Roy C. Lackey wrote:
> Ryan Dunn wrote:
>   
>> Okay, but it is called a false coin and rather readily by Dr. Talos, so
>>     
> what marks it as false?<
>
> The greasy texture, in part. At any rate, there is something about the
> dubious specie Talos collected that night that set them apart from the coins
> that were undoubtedly genuine.
>
>   
>> Dr. Talos is quick to tell Severian and Dorcas to be careful using the
>>     
> second coin which matches the one in Severian's mausoleum. Who is supposed
> to be on the coin besides the Autarch at that time?<
>
> Huh? No one else. The face on the bad coins was the same as on the good
> ones. Who would try to pass counterfeit coins with an unknown's face on
> them? It would draw unwanted attention.
>
>   
>> I just thought that, since Tzadkiel is a hierogrammate, that androgynous
>>     
> or feminine could apply to him as well, combined with his ship. It would
> mean the coin came from somewhere else, and might have some meaning.<
>
> I knew better than to get involved. <g> This is the title of the relevant
> chapter in SHADOW: "The Autarch's Face". That should be enough, I hope. As
> for the flying ship on the reverse side of the coin, the Old Autarch had
> gone to Yesod the same way Sev would.
>
> BTW, if I had to guess who had dropped a false coin at the play that night,
> it would be Hildegrin. Somewhere, IIRC, he said that he had been keeping an
> eye on Sev for Vodalus, and Vodalus was shown to pass bad coins.
>
> -Roy
>
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