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Augustus As four countermarks 25-23 mm 9.8g TICA AVG probably for Tiberius Augustus CE14-37 Dolphin
Ex: @Valentinian

Next up: BCE Dolphin

 

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CALABRIA, Tarentum
AR Nomos. 7.50g, 20.2mm. CALABRIA, Tarentum, circa 325-281 BC. Fischer-Bossert 870c (this coin); Vlasto 607; SNG Copenhagen 849; SNG France 1800 (same obverse die). O: Nude rider on horse galloping to right, stabbing with spear held in his right hand and holding two other spears and shield with his left; below, ΣΑ. R: TAPAΣ, Phalanthos riding dolphin to left, holding kantharos in his right hand and trident in his left; below, little dolphin leaping left; K in left field.
Ex Schweizerischer Bankverein 29 (28 January 1992), lot 12

Next: CE Dolphin

 

I'll do ya one better...


Thasos.Ca. 463-411 BC. AR 1/16 stater or obol (0.49 gm). VF. Two dolphins swimming in opposite directions; pellets around / Quadripartite incuse square. Le Rider, Thasiennes 9. SNG Copenhagen 1020-1 I purchased these 2 when my twins were born!
Edit: scratch that @zumbly got there first

 

Domitian denarius

Next: a fanciful marine creature

 

GALLIENUS
Antoninianus
OBVERSE: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right
REVERSE: NEPTVNO CONS AVG, hippocamp or Capricorn right, N below
Struck at Rome, Sole Reign, 267-268 AD
3.9g, 20mm
RIC 245

Next: Neptune

 

Demetrios I Polioketes Tetradrachm Amphipolis c. 290 B.C. Next coin Sicilian tetradrachm

 

That's a really nice one!

 

Syracuse tetradrachm 17.0g 485-478 BC


Next: Silver coin of Magna Graecia older than the one shown here

 

CALABRIA, Tarentum
AR Nomos. 7.86g, 19.3mm. CALABRIA, Tarentum, circa 500-490 BC. Vlasto 115. O: Phalanthos riding dolphin right, holding octopus in right hand, left hand extended; TAPAΣ (retrograde) below. R: Hippocamp left; scallop below, TAPAΣ (retrograde) above.

Next: Retrograde legend

 

Poseidonia, fourree stater 480-400 BC
This coin not only has the legends right to left but shows the archaic sigma that is turned to look like an M.


Next: Boustrophedon on a coin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon
Boustrophedon/ˌbuːstrəˈfiːdən/ (Ancient Greek: βουστροφηδόν, boustrophēdón "ox-turning" from βοῦς, bous, "ox", στροφή, strophē, "turn" and the adverbial suffix -δόν, "like, in the manner of"; that is, turning like oxen in ploughing)[1][2] is a type of bi-directional text, mostly seen in ancient manuscripts and other inscriptions.[3] Every other line of writing is flipped or reversed, with reversed letters. Rather than going left-to-right as in modern European languages, or right-to-left as in Arabic and Hebrew, alternate lines in boustrophedon must be read in opposite directions. Also, the individual characters are reversed, or mirrored. It was a common way of writing in stone in Ancient Greece.[4]

 

Tetradrachm of Akragas c. 470 B.C. Next coin Tetradrachm from Asia Minor

 

Next coin Tetradrachm from Asia Minor:

Pergamon and Ephesus were ancient cities located in the Anatolia region on the west coast of Asia Minor

Mysia, Mint: Unknown (Pergamon or Ephesus?), AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm, Unknown Quaestor (?) maybe L. Sempronius Atratinus (?)
Date: 42-39 BC
Obv: Cista mystica within ivy wreath
Rev: Bow case between two serpents; monogram above, Q to left, thyrsos to right.
Size: 12.6g (heavier than the average 12.13g and median 12.25g for this issue), and 25mm

and to introduce the next theme.

Greek, Black Sea Region
Æ Arrowhead Proto-Money
Date: 7th Century B.C.
Size: 41x18mm 3.45g

Next up: Proto-Money

 

Proto-Money



China Zhou Dynasty 1046-256 BCE AE Fish Money 67mm 9.5g AB Coole Enc Chinese Coins 6920ff
EX: @Ken Dorney

Next up: octopus

 

Does this huge date span mean fish were cast over a long period with so little change that we, today, can not tell the difference or that we do not know when fish were made even though it might have been only a few years?

 

Those, I believe, are the dates of the Zhou Dynasty. I will let the Chinese experts weigh in on the opinions regarding their manufacture.

 

In my best Connery, "Heresh a Lil octopushy from Shishily."


Next up: Arethusa

 

Lol

 

Arethusa


Syracuse Tyrant Gelon 478-458 BCE AR Tet 24mm 16.7g Slow Biga Victory Artemis-Arethusa 4 dolphins Sear-Greek 914

Next up: Punic Sicily

 

Sicilio Punic Tetratrachm minted at Entella? C 300 B.C. Jenkins 343 (This coin illustrated) Next coin Coin plated in reference

 

NICE! That was what I was looking for!