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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8210708, member: 110350"]Correct. By the way, here are two different examples of the same type, Vlasto 666, currently for sale at VCoins, both of which show that the dolphin-rider holds nothing in that hand -- although the first one is somewhat susceptible to being interpreted with the same illusion as mine. [ATTACH=full]1440403[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1440404[/ATTACH] Interestingly, the price for the first one is £465, while the price for the second one is £1,800. I realize that the second one is in considerably better condition than the first, especially on the reverse, but should it cost almost four times as much? As I recall, I paid something a bit less than the price of the first one when I bought mine two years ago, and think it's at least as nice. I think the second one is overpriced. Separately, I would love to have a Tarentum coin with the dolphin-rider holding a trident, and looked today at all the different examples available on both V-Coins and MA-Shops -- more than 40 of them in total. Frustratingly, on 100% of them, regardless of the price, either the tines of the trident or the nose of the dolphin, or both, are partly or entirely off the flan. Never mind the "Taras" reverse legend when there's supposed to be one beneath the dolphin -- it's present on only a handful. It really seems that the design was just too big for the size of the flans used.[/QUOTE]