User blog:Merlinfan/Morgause's coin and deleted scene

I've recently seen this promotional picture with Morgause (from episode 1) holding what it seems to be a coin. Now, I was wondering whether the coin is the one Morgause gives to the ferryman when he takes the sisters across the lake or the famous magical coin Morgana is given in the Spirit world.

Although I’ve never seen the deleted scene (I don’t think they have released it, it’s not even in the DVDs) I’ve collected all the information I could find (from the audio commentary of ep.7 in particular) and added them to different articles (mainly in the “Outtakes” page), but there are still a few questions I’m curious about.

What is the meaning of the soul coin? Why couldn’t Morgause use it herself? How is it possible that she had it in the Spirit world? Did Morgana really die or was she just in a limbo?

I really like the idea of being able to leave the Underworld with a coin: if you think of Greek mythology, the souls of the dead had to pay Charon to be ferried across the rivers Acheron and Styx. I guess that’s from where they got the idea of making Morgause pay the ferryman. The Isle of the Blessed seems, in fact, to be a sort of limbo to the Spirit world, where Morgana was able to open the Veil that actually separates the world of the living from that of the dead.

Probably in the deleted scene they wanted to show that Morgana had to “pay” to be able to make the journey back to this world, as Lancelot in ep.9 had to.

So, what do you think? Please, share your ideas!