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<p>[QUOTE="Limes, post: 7380172, member: 101013"]Lovely coin indeed! With many people posting their lovely RR coins, it's becoming more and more tempting to endulge myself in that era and coinage too...</p><p>A question: would you know why the elephant wears a bell around its neck? Was it part of its battle armour? As the elephants neck is quite big, it would have been a big bell i imagine. Or is the bell supposed to mean something else in the context of this coin?</p><p><br /></p><p><b>EDIT: never mind, I now see DonnaML already gave the answer to this question above! Who knew elephants were that quiet....</b> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Same type as shown by [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] above. I really like this coin. The cuirass is quite clear on this one.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1285085[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Limes, post: 7380172, member: 101013"]Lovely coin indeed! With many people posting their lovely RR coins, it's becoming more and more tempting to endulge myself in that era and coinage too... A question: would you know why the elephant wears a bell around its neck? Was it part of its battle armour? As the elephants neck is quite big, it would have been a big bell i imagine. Or is the bell supposed to mean something else in the context of this coin? [B]EDIT: never mind, I now see DonnaML already gave the answer to this question above! Who knew elephants were that quiet....[/B] :) Same type as shown by [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] above. I really like this coin. The cuirass is quite clear on this one. [ATTACH=full]1285085[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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