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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ian, post: 133276, member: 283&quot;]You will find the octopus depicted on the ancient coinage of Syracuse in Sicily, also that of Bruttium in Italy and Eretria (on the Island of Euboia) in Greece. There are others. A search via google should provide you with plenty examples.</p><p><br /></p><p>The ones from Syracuse appear on the market fairly regularly and aren&#039;t necessarily expensive.</p><p><br /></p><p>One theory for their appearance on ancient coins is that they were held in high regard as a delicacy. Ancient coinage depicted many creatures of the sea and the land, real as well as fictional.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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