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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7525364, member: 110504&quot;]Weeell, at the royal level, they did have access to elephants as of the 13th century.&nbsp; Here&#039;s a link to a terrific article about the one (!) that Henry III of England got from Frederick II (of Sicily, as well as Germany) --who got it from &quot;the sultan of Babylon&quot;-- along with a couple of later instances in the same reign.</p><p><a href="https://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/matthew-paris-and-henry-iiis-elephant/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/matthew-paris-and-henry-iiis-elephant/" rel="nofollow">https://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/matthew-paris-and-henry-iiis-elephant/</a></p><p>More generally (as Matthew Paris, the chronicler and illustrator, notes in the last instance), there was a huge cultural gap, even within Europe, between the Mediterranean countries and points north.</p><p>But, No, Uh-uh, where coins were concerned, the Europeans mostly just had a completely different, more minimalist political agenda.&nbsp; And, Yep, had Henry III issued coins with an elephant on them, for instance, as a demonstration of how cool he was to have one, it would&#039;ve gone sailing over most people&#039;s heads.&nbsp; ...And, Yep, at the popular level, some people would probably have thought he was a witch.&nbsp; &#039;What is this Strange Beast?&nbsp; He&#039;s in league with the Devil!&#039;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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