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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7889814, member: 110504&quot;]Sorry to wallow in the obvious --otherwise impicitly drawing on what several people have already said-- but where early depictions on coins are concerned, you have to combine the chronology with the operant geography. </p><p>Good candidates would otherwise be issues of Alexander, or the Hasmoneans, or the Phoenicians, especially in Tyre.&nbsp; Except that Alexander&#039;s are notoriously uniform, in an obvious attempt to perpetuate the same motifs across a vast and conspicuously culturally diverse empire.&nbsp; And the Maccabees weren&#039;t that keen on representative images generally, and mainly issued coins in small modules.&nbsp; And the Phoenicians, in the same neighborhood, got their primary economic and cultural <i>raison d&#039;etre</i> from maritime trade, rather the overland kind.&nbsp; Their coins, from, what, the 4th c. BCE, if not earlier, have fun representations of ships ...but not a camel in sight.</p><p>...Are there ancient coins from, for instance, central or southern Asia that have camels on them?&nbsp; <i>That </i>would be fun....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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