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2300 Year Old Coins Found
April 22, 2010, 10:47:09 PM

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Re: 2300 Year Old Coins Found
April 23, 2010, 02:41:54 PM
These were dug up in Egypt, where the archaeo-protectionists like Dr Hawass hold sway. Collectors will never own any these coins, because collectors are The Enemy. These coins will all wind up in a museum, whether the museum can afford to store and display them properly or not.

Indeed, coins like this are dug up in Egypt all the time. I own two, though mine are from the time of Ptolemy VI not Ptolemy III. The only reason these made the news this time is that the archaeologists got to these coins before the looters did.

Curiously, the picture included in this article (and in the articles on this story on other news sites) doesn't actually show what the actual coins found and described look like, with the portrait of Zeus-Amun. The coins under discussion actually look like this. The coins shown in the news article depict a woman; presumably they are scarcer types from Ptolemy III's wife, Berenike II.

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Re: 2300 Year Old Coins Found
July 07, 2010, 07:53:22 PM
Amr, we need your help to get some of these. LOL

Sorry Steve, the government gave only one coin for each citizen  ;)



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Re: 2300 Year Old Coins Found
July 07, 2010, 11:05:25 PM
You wish!

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Re: 2300 Year Old Coins Found
July 08, 2010, 02:18:46 AM
 :)

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Re: 2300 Year Old Coins Found
July 08, 2010, 10:06:09 AM
Amr, we need your help to get some of these. LOL

Sorry Steve, the government gave only one coin for each citizen  ;)





Tell you what Amr......I will swap you one with a Great White Shark for one of these..... ;D   ;D   ;D

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Re: 2300 Year Old Coins Found
July 08, 2010, 11:37:08 PM
Amr, we need your help to get some of these. LOL

Sorry Steve, the government gave only one coin for each citizen  ;)




 


Tell you what Amr......I will swap you one with a Great White Shark for one of these..... ;D   ;D   ;D



Deal  ;D

Amr :) :) :)

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Re: 2300 Year Old Coins Found
July 08, 2010, 11:40:48 PM

I guarantee it will be an original coin if you guarantee that you will deliver it alive  ;)

Amr :) :) :)

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