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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 24820802, member: 128351&quot;]Very nice coin !!! No elephant but a war galley? The message is the same. In Hellenistic kingdoms, elephants and war galleys were the symbols of military might. When you read (in Polybius) the peace treaties Rome dictated to conquered enemies, Carthage in 201, the Macedonian kingdom in 196, the Seleucid Kingdom in 188, there is always the order to relinquish elephants and fleet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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