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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7888820, member: 110350&quot;]Fascinating article, [USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER].</p><p><br /></p><p>I have only two ancient coins with camels, both of which have already been posted in this thread -- one of them showing a two-humped Bactrian camel not even found in the wild in the location (Arabia) where the coin was intended to circulate.</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, Aulus Plautius, AR Denarius, 55 BCE, Rome mint. Obv. Turreted head of Cybele right, A. PLAVTIVS before, AE[D CVR S C] behind [<i>portion in brackets off flan</i>] / Rev. “Bacchius the Jew” [<i> = Aristobulus II of Judaea?</i>],* in attitude of supplication, kneeling beside saddled camel (dromedary - one hump) standing right, extending olive-branch with right hand and holding camel’s bridle with left hand, his cape flowing behind him; BACCHIVS in exergue, IVDAEVS on right. RSC I Plautia 13, Crawford 431/1, Sydenham 932, Sear RCV I 395 (ill.), Harlan, RRM II Ch. 18 at pp. 145-149, BMCRR 3916. 18x20 mm., 4.25 g.&nbsp; (<i>Purchased from Harlan J. Berk, Ltd., 211th Buy or Bid Sale, May 2020, Lot 183</i>.) SB Binder 8 RRC 431/1&nbsp; (85, 88, 89, 92)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1361075[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><i>* </i>See Sear RCV I at p. 148: “Aulus Plautius strikes as curule aedile. The problematic interpretation of the reverse type appears to have been most successfully resolved by [Michael] Harlan in RRM [see <i>Roman Republican Moneyers and Their Coins 63 BCE-49 BCE </i>(2nd Revised Edition 2015), Ch. 18 at pp. 146-148] . . . who identifies the kneeling figure as Aristobulus [= Judah Aristobulus II of the Hasmonean Dynasty, d. ca. 49 BCE], the Jewish high priest, then held captive by Pompey in Rome.”<i>&nbsp; </i></p><p><br /></p><p>Trajan AR Drachm, 115-Feb. 116 AD [<i>before granting of Parthia title</i>], Arabia Bostra (or Rome*) Mint. Obv. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Trajan right, with paludamentum, seen from rear, AYTOKP KAIC NЄP TPAIANѠ APICTѠ CƐB ΓƐPM ΔAK [<i>equivalent of&nbsp; IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GERM DAC</i>] / Rev. Bactrian (two-humped) camel, walking left, ΔHMAPX ЄΞ YΠATO ς [<i>equivalent of TR P COS VI (sixth consulship)</i>]. RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. III 4076 (2015); RPC Online at <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/4076" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/4076" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/4076</a>, SNG ANS VI 1158; Sydenham 205 [E. Sydenham, <i>The Coinage of Caesarea in Cappadocia </i>(1933)].&nbsp; 19 mm., 3.10 g.&nbsp; <i>Purchased from Kenneth W. Dorney</i>. (<i>Coin is double die match to Roma Numismatics Auction, May 21, 2013, Lot 767 [<a href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=474&amp;lot=767];" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=474&amp;lot=767];" rel="nofollow">https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=474&amp;lot=767];</a> image of that coin is reproduced as Plate 14, No. 7 in Woytek &amp; Butcher article cited in note below.</i>)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1361076[/ATTACH] </p><p>* See Bernhard E. Woytek and Kevin Butcher, <i>The Camel Drachms of Trajan in Context: Old Problems and a New Overstrike</i>, The Numismatic Chronicle Vol. 175 (2015), pp. 117-136 (<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43859784" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43859784" rel="nofollow">https://www.jstor.org/stable/43859784</a>).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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