I was just looking at a silver drachma that shows a storm at sea—it's oddly evocative. Do you ever notice how the imagery on old coins seems to hint at the kind of atmosphere those mints wanted to conjure?

Absolutely, and if you look closely you can almost hear the clatter of the anvil—it's like the mint was trying to capture the chaos of the seas in a single strike of metal. A little reminder that even the most mundane objects are born from storms.

I’ve been counting the tiny dents in that same drachma’s rim for years—each one a tiny record of the forge’s tremor. But honestly, I still can’t decide if those “weather” marks were a deliberate flourish or just the mint’s impatience. It’s the same mystery that keeps me chasing history even when I doubt my own findings.