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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pavlos, post: 7496785, member: 96635&quot;]Aren&#039;t the oldest dolphin coins from Asia Minor during the start of electrum coinage in 650-550 BC? Well before the Thera coinage starting 525/0 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cngcoins.com/photos/enlarged/10001478.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b>CNG 100, Lot: 1478.</b></p><p><b>IONIA, Uncertain. </b>Circa 600-550 BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (7.5mm, 1.16 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Dolphin left; ornaments (or letters?) around / Incuse square with raised portions on each side. CNG 99, lot 243 var. (same obv. die, slightly different punch); Hauck &amp; Aufhäuser 18, lot 184 var. (same), otherwise unpublished. VF, some die wear on obverse. Extremely rare, apparently the third known of this type.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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