Messenger of the gods; God of commerce, thieves, travelers, sports, athletes, and border crossings, fish; Guide to the Underworld; Inventor of instruments for Musicians
In Ancient Greek mythology, Hermes, son of Zeus and Maia, was the Olympian god of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them, of shepherds and cowherds, of orators and wit, of literature and poets, of athletics, of weights and measures, of invention, of commerce in general, and of the cunning of thieves and liars.
The Romans conflated Hermes with their messenger god Mercury.
Between 1916 and 1945, the United States minted the Winged Liberty Head Dime. This coin featured a female character who was frequently mistaken for the boy-child Hermes, and thus came to be known as the Mercury dime.
