Dolphins can be scary when they are not on a coin......

The double dolphin Taras is pretty cool! Notice how cheerful the free one at the bottom is, compared to the grumpy enslaved large dolphin, forced to carry some hero who's too drunk to swim on his own.

 

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I have it as 510-490 BC. Sear 1360
Later ones are a lot prettier. 411-350 BC

 

This has some lofty provenance as well!

 

Got's to get a semi-modern in here. Most assuredly, not mine..........

 

Here's an interesting dolphin coin of Issa, an island off of Illyricum:



Ox: Head of Ionios, the son of Adrias, the eponymous hero of the Ionian sea, ΙΟΝΙΟ[Σ]
Rx: Dolphin with a line of waves beneath

 

Have shown this one alot recently, but since it's my favorite dolphin coin, here it is again .


CALABRIA, Tarentum
Circa 290-281 BC
AR Nomos. 7.75g, 22.3mm. Fischer-Bossert Group 80, 1131 (V417/R873); Vlasto –; HN Italy 934. O: Warrior, holding shield and two spears, preparing to cast a third, on horseback right; ΣA below. R: TAPAΣ, Phalanthos, holding distaff, riding dolphin left; pellet to left; below, prow left. Ex Thomas Bentley Cederlind Collection.

 

I don't think it matters how many times you show a coin as beautiful as that, one of the nicest Greek coins I have ever seen.

 

Dolphin thread, yay! One of these days I'll find the right Tarentum nomos. The right one at the right time at the right price has proven tricky so far. Perhaps the problem is that I'm looking for one coin when in reality I'll need to buy several of the type


LUCANIA, Velia. AR didrachm. One of my first individually purchased ancient coins.


SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles tetradrachm. My favorite coin.


SICILY, Syracuse. Hieron II


CALABRIA, Tarentum. AR litra


THRACE, Byzantion. AR siglos (darkly toned)

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Looks like I have no Roman dolphins but a few are on "the list".

 

pod of Dolphins from the black sea:

 

Nice score!

 

Oh please, I live in Miami. The Dolphins are the sorriest and most frustrating team to watch. I gave up on season tickets because I got sick of the empty promises of greatness each season, only to be followed by loss after loss.

My sanity is already fragile thanks to the terrible Miami Marlins, so the Dolphins had to go.

 

I didn't say they were any good, but I still wouldn't relish the idea of 1,000+ lbs. of meat running straight for me.

Chris

 

Nice, people are already talkin' about the upcoming NFL season ...

Man, ya gotta love the Bud commercials, eh?

... I tear-up every single time!!






... and this one is merely inspirational ...

 

Along with Alexander and Zeus.

 

My dolphin is so fat, he looks like a pregnant doe.

My dolphin is so fat, swimmers swim around him for exercise.


Philip II Deultum AE

 

That's a Beluga, my friend ... they only live a few miles north of my dojo