About the description of a coin [solved]

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I cannot find information that motivates that a postman is effectively represented on this coin.

Does someone have a reference to a sensible source?

Moreover,  on the coin, there is a dromedary, not a generic camel

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Got bored so decided to have a look around at this. Sudanese stamps have featured the same design for a while, there are some pages and articles from niche sites that talk about them but I cannot be bothered to verify their reliability.  There is a Wikipedia page designated to Sudanese postage history with sources attached to it here.

 

It would still probably be best to use the term ‘rider’, and include the tidbit about it being a postman in the comments section.

Camel Postman is the correct term.  Changing it to Dromedary and Rider would ignore over a 125 year tradition of calling it Camel Postman and the fact that it indeed does depict a postman.  Besides dromedary is a type of camel.

 

http://www.pjsymes.com.au/articles/CamelPostman.htm

 

An excerpt:

 

In 1897  On meeting Captain Stanton, Kitchener ordered him to provide a design for a postage stamp and promptly gave Stanton a generous five days to complete the design. Inspiration eluded Stanton for several days, until the regiment’s mail was delivered by camel instead of the usual river steamer. As well as being a map-maker, Stanton was also the liaison officer for the local tribesmen, which included the Howawir tribe. Therefore, he was able to prevail on the Sheikh of the Howawir tribe to don his war kit and mount his camel, so that he could draw his inspired image of the ‘Camel Postman’. In order to make the camel appear to be on a postal run, bags filled with chopped straw were attached to the saddle to imitate mailbags. Stanton then drew the sketch of the Sheikh riding through the desert and added the names of ‘Khartoum’ and ‘Berber’, two towns in Sudan, to the mailbags.

rsirian1

 and the fact that it indeed does depict a postman. 

Yeah I don't even know why I proposed the second part haha, thanks for the good read :)

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