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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;randygeki, post: 2192081, member: 13719&quot;]I picked up this Philip ant. a couple weeks ago. It has really blotch patina so I tried to clean it a little. It&#039;s better but not great and still a pain to snap a shot of. The other is a Olbia, Sarmatia dolphin I got at a decent price. Also found a nice trilobite at a thrift shop <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> It&#039;s about 1 inch.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]426002[/ATTACH] </p><p>Philip I, AR antoninianus, 247 AD, Antioch. 4.30 g. IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG, radiate, draped, cuirassed bust right / AEQVITAS AVG, Aequitas standing left, holding scales and cornucopiae. RIC 27 var (rev. legend); Cohen 9. RSC 9 var; Tulln 901.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]426000[/ATTACH] </p><p>Olbia, Sarmatia, c. 5th Century B.C.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bronze cast dolphin, cf. SGCV I 1684, SNG BM Black Sea 360 ff., SNG Stancomb 334 ff., SNG Pushkin 12 ff., SNG Cop 67 ff., F, Olbia (Parutino, Ukraine) mint, weight 1.726g, maximum diameter 28.9mm, obverse dolphin with raised dorsal fin</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Small cast dolphins were cast in Olbia, beginning 550 - 525 B.C., first as sacrificial objects for worship of Apollo and later as a form of currency.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]426001[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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