Gordian Knot ~ Silver Coin with High Relief and partly Gilded ~ in Wooden Case

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The Gordian Knot represents a difficult, intractable and often insolvable problem. The oracle declared that anyone who succeeded in untying the knot would be the conqueror of all Asia. The knot stayed tied until the arrival of Alexander the Great who cheated on the oracle by cutting the knot with his sword. The ouroboros dragon biting its own tail is yet another symbolic representation of the Gordian knot.