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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4981360, member: 110504&quot;]@</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER], from here, the gouge almost looks as if it could be a weak strike of a countermark.&nbsp; ...Now tell me how wrong I was!</p><p>Your speculation about the interval between the 3rd c. BCE (Punic Wars, and all that), and the rendering of the elephant on your example, involuntarily evoked a medieval European example of a similar level of, may we say, visual anachronism, from the 13th century.&nbsp; The chronicler and illustrator Matthew Paris tried to draw an elephant, in the context of Friedrich II&#039;s wars in northern Italy.&nbsp; ...At a comparable remove in space as your RR denarius is likely to have been in time. </p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Matthew_Paris_Elephant_from_Parker_MS_16_fol_151v.jpg/800px-Matthew_Paris_Elephant_from_Parker_MS_16_fol_151v.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Matthew_Paris_Elephant_from_Parker_MS_16_fol_151v.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Matthew_Paris_Elephant_from_Parker_MS_16_fol_151v.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Matthew_Paris_Elephant_from_Parker_MS_16_fol_151v.jpg</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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