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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7514317, member: 110350"]She has a couple, at least, involving transportation! One of them is based on this coin, the Lucius Julius L.f. Caesar denarius with Venus on the reverse driving abiga of cupids: [ATTACH=full]1298180[/ATTACH] More air transportation, namely Pegasus on a Corinth stater: [ATTACH=full]1298181[/ATTACH] Some water transportation: Cupid/Infant genius on a dolphin, L. Lucretius Trio: [ATTACH=full]1298182[/ATTACH]More water transportation from Tarentum: [ATTACH=full]1298185[/ATTACH] A C. Fonteius denarius, with a Janiform head of the Dioscuri on the obverse and a very detailed galley on the reverse: [ATTACH=full]1298183[/ATTACH] A Roman Alexandrian tetradrachm of Antoninus Pius depicting Isis Pharia standing on a prow, holding the billowing sail: [ATTACH=full]1298184[/ATTACH] There are so many coins depicting ground transportation that it's difficult to pick any out, but how about a desultor riding not one but two horses, from C. Marcius Censorinus? [ATTACH=full]1298186[/ATTACH] And another jockey, this time with one horse, from C. Calpurnius Piso L.f. Frugi: [ATTACH=full]1298187[/ATTACH] And a biga driven by Victory, from Ti. Claudius Ti.f. Ap.n. Nero (the Emperor Tiberius's grandfather), going so fast that it's almost flying: [ATTACH=full]1298189[/ATTACH] Finally, an elephant used as transportation, from Philip I in commemoration of the 1000th anniversary of Rome's founding: [ATTACH=full]1298194[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]