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LOT 0561
Greek Bronze Dolpin and Wheel Proto-Money Group
CIRCA 6TH CENTURY B.C.
3/4 - 1 1/8 in. (3.98 grams total, 19-29 mm).
Comprising: flat-section dolphin-shaped casting with raised eye; wheel-shaped casting with four spokes. [2, No Reserve]
Provenance
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Literature
See Sear 1684.
Footnotes
The dolphin coins were made in Thrace to honour the god Apollo Delphinios.
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