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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrsmat71, post: 2125948, member: 42634&quot;]picked up a couple of these little bronze dolphin guys....cute!&nbsp; they are pretty inexpensive and there are plenty on the market, so why not.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/102_6193_zpssve2emmi.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/102_6193_zpssve2emmi.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/102_6193_zpssve2emmi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>neither of them show perfect left/right symmetry...but this guy is very off.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/102_6189_zpsgr7abkhf.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/102_6189_zpsgr7abkhf.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/102_6189_zpsgr7abkhf.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/102_6188_zpssegnkuzb.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/102_6188_zpssegnkuzb.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/102_6188_zpssegnkuzb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>eye larger, different place, different snout.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>these things are smaller than i thought, the largest is 24 mm head to tail (straight measure) and 1.6 g, the smaller is 20 mm and 0.8 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>there isn&#039;t much info on these online.&nbsp; they come from a greek colony on the black sea called olbia.&nbsp;&nbsp; there is a large range of dates for when they were produced ranging form the 6th century to the 3rd century.&nbsp; i think mine are 4th century.&nbsp; they come in a number of different sizes and shapes, and some have text (dare i say a legend?) on them.&nbsp; here is the wildwinds page with some of the larger ones and other coins from the area...</p><p><a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/sarmatia/olbia/t.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/sarmatia/olbia/t.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/sarmatia/olbia/t.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>they seem to think they were possibly money and/or some type of religious item..associated with apollo.&nbsp; other than that...i don&#039;t know much about these things.&nbsp; i&#039;&#039;d love to hear from those that do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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