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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8258592, member: 110350&quot;]Great coin! The reverse depicting Alexandria with an elephant headdress was already quite common under the Julio-Claudians, as with this example from Nero:</p><p><br /></p><p>Nero, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 12 (65/66 AD), Alexandria, Egypt Mint. Obv. Radiate bust of Nero with aegis, right, ΝΕΡΩ ΚΛΑV ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒ ΓΕΡ / Rev. Bust of Alexandria, right, wearing elephant headdress, AYTO-KPA around, LIB [Year 12] in right field.&nbsp; RPC I Online 5289, Emmett 109.12, Milne 238 at p. 7 [Milne, J.G., <i>Catalogue of Alexandrian Coins </i>(Oxford 1933, reprint with supplement by Colin M. Kraay, 1971)], K&amp;G 14.88. 20x23 mm., 12.11 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1456239[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I hadn&#039;t previously seen your explanation of the elephant headdress on the personification of Alexandria. Are we to assume from this that what&#039;s portrayed is supposed to be an Indian elephant rather than an African elephant? An elephant headdress is also often portrayed on personifications of Africa herself: are those, by contrast, supposed to be African elephants?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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