Gold Coin Symbolism In American God's

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American god’s have’s lots of symbol and one of them is the coin that that shadow got gold coin symbolizing the sun protection he had the sun but gave it to his dead wife shadow placed the gold coin in hey wife grave. Then zoryap finds out that shadow gave the coin away and gives shadow the moon a silver coin zoryap explains that it not as much protection as the sun but not shadow only haves the protection the moon. Shadow wife was brought back life with the coin that shadow put in her grave yard. Now shadow wife goes to visit him at night and talks to him about coming back to

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