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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 11622868, member: 10461&quot;]That looks like a museum display, not some tourist kiosk.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And an impressive array at that.&nbsp; Those aureii... all that Byzantine gold...</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d love to see Herculaneum, Pompeii, Athens.&nbsp; All that stuff.&nbsp; The only part of the Old World I&#039;ve ever visited that had an ancient history in the Western sense was the UK, and where I was in Essex, the oldest thing I saw was a church that dated to the Norman period.&nbsp; There was plenty of ancient history there (a detecting partner right near me dug a Marcus Aurelius sestertius in the first field we visited).&nbsp; But not much in terms of surviving Roman ruins.&nbsp; And I didn&#039;t visit any museums, unfortunately.&nbsp; We spent all our time in muddy farm fields, <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/highlights-of-my-2013-metal-detecting-week-in-england.287138/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/highlights-of-my-2013-metal-detecting-week-in-england.287138/">detecting</a>.&nbsp; But that was exciting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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