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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Carl Wilmont, post: 4364310, member: 75496&quot;][USER=41219]@furryfrog02[/USER], here are a couple of examples of those Olbian dolphins that you mentioned.&nbsp;&nbsp; The residents of Olbia presumably enjoyed watching them jumping in the Black Sea.&nbsp; These cast metal items were relatively flat, and a medium of exchange; but if part of one&#039;s definition of a &quot;coin&quot; is that it be round, they obviously don&#039;t meet that criterion.&nbsp; Some had an inscription, I believe most did not.&nbsp; Note the relative differences in weight of the two pictured below.&nbsp; Some refer to them as proto-money.&nbsp; Others call them dolphin coinage.&nbsp; There are differing views on the emergence of &quot;money&quot; and &quot;coins&quot; from a bartering system or the use of specific weights of metals.&nbsp; I&#039;d like to hear the thoughts of CoinTalk members on this topic.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Olbia 437-410 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1103143[/ATTACH] </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>31 mm.&nbsp; 3.16 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1103144[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>27 mm.&nbsp; 1.86 g.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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