Q/ What Are The Cherubs Doing?

Hard labor.

Sounds plausible.

Interesting thoughts; thank you, one and all.

An off-forum pal & I have been kicking some ideas around.

My own guesses have evolved, so to speak, to settle on:

- the large roundish object in the foreground is a loaf of bread, and

- the press is an olive or wine press, and

- the rightmost cherub is pouring something (perhaps olive oil, perhaps honey) on the bread, and

- the center / rearmost cherub is splitting, uh, dunno.

And to think that whatever we are looking at would have been obvious to the first owner of the note!

Q/ Anybody else see a loaf of bread?

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

That is actually a very large Brazil nut in the press. Or the cherubs are very small.

Cherub Stonemasons preparing stone slabs for the new PMG banknote grading building.