The Two Coins

Tony Ellis · 14 Aug 2010, 11:14 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com (Tony Ellis)
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:14:43 +0100
Subject: (urth) The Two Coins
Message-ID: <AANLkTikTRfgNv2AW2xkPC8JMm5mYHBjS4LOdqfyxFpC1 at mail.gmail.com>

Lee Berman wrote:
>Anyway, I have a memory from somewhere in UotNS of a coin with Severian's scarred
>face on it. Maybe the assassin with the poisoned blade had it? (That's Agia in disguse of course ;-))
>Is that a false memory? Well, no text here. Sorry. Have to check later.

This exchange, perhaps: chapter XXX, when Sev's in the Chowder Pot:
He examined it, bit it, and gave it back to me. "Gold all right. Looks
a trifle like you, 'cept he seems to have got himself cut up. Don't
suppose you noticed."
"No," I said. "I never thought of it."

This is one of Idas's chrisos.

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