JA's Levantine

A bottle cap advertising an elephant drink?

Actually, these are really nice and yours in particular.

 

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I like that coin for the same reasons you do! How about that.

600 elephants...no thanks.

 

Imagine the clean-up. But I suppose that's what slaves were for.

 

Ya, I was thinking that too...and I agree plenty of shock and awe having to face down those beasts. Something I'm thinking about - today elephants are used like heavy machinery in India. They work at construction sites, the pick things up, move things, etc. and just like a construction site anywhere sometimes accidents happen. It's my understanding that when an elephant accidentally kills a human their personality changes and they become unmanageable. They won't listen any more and now know they can just crush us so they put them down. If this is true I wonder how the ancient animal handlers trained the elephants to deal with battle. We're they just kind of un-chained and turned loose on the enemy with the troops told, "Stay back or be crushed!"

 

Hey! I cleaned out cattle and horse barns growing up! hmmm...reckon that was slave labor for what I was paid...

 

Holy smokes, JA => now you're packin' a pachyderm!! (nice coin ... congrats)



=> man, I love that the poor elephant didn't even flinch and/or get rattled during the performance (full-points!!)

I also have one of those cool elephant bottle-cap examples ...

Antiochos VI Dionysos
SYRIA, Seleukid Kings
145-142 BC
Antioch mint
Dionysos & Elephant
Diameter: 22 mm
Weight: 8.12 grams
Obverse: Diademed and radiate head right
Reverse: BASILEWS ANTIOCOU [E]PIFANOUS [DION]US[OU], Elephant standing left; STA above control mark (star) in left field
Reference: Houghton 249; SNG Spaer 1774ff

 

And here's the third Seleukid elephant for comparison. Only 597 to go and we have just as many as they once did.

 

Better pic I think, using incandescent light at different angles. Still not happy though - maybe the third time will be the charm, although this does portray the green patina accurately, which is quite lovely...

 

Here's my contribution to the cause...

 

Very nice bottle cap Z. Love the toning/patina.

 

Hey Z-bro => man, that really is a pretty sweet coin (it has super rugged eye-appeal)

=> it's yummy "and" tough lookin'!!

 

Thanks, Steve, I've always liked yours and was glad when this fella turned up in one of my mixed lots.

 

My elephant comes with Ladocea on the obverse. Hoover 685. Antiochus IV

 

these are cool coins...one is on my hit list for sure.