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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PeteB, post: 4578126, member: 99412&quot;]I&#039;ve wondered for quite sometime what the significance of the bell hanging under the neck of those elephants mean. The bells show up fairly frequently on ancient coins depicting elephants.</p><p>Were they war elephants with bells clanging as they charged to frighten the enemy?</p><p>Were they intended to tell the owners where the huge beasts were as they grazed in local woods/tall grasses....as possibly with some cattle and sheep?</p><p>Any thoughts....or facts?</p><p>Another example:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1133603[/ATTACH] </p><p>Etruria, Arretium (?) The Chiana Valley, circa 208-207 BC. Æ quartunica (18x20 mm, 4.9 g, 5h). Obv: Head of African, right; border of dots. Rev: Indian elephant standing right, bell around neck; monogram below. Border of dots. BMC Italy, p. 15, #18. SNG Copenhagen 48 var. (no monogram on obv.).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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