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Message:: [QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8184610, member: 128351"]Rome, Athens, Lugdunum, Alexandria are today large and crowded cities, in which you still can see remains of what they were in Antiquity. Others like Petra, Ephesus, Perga, are now archaeological sites crowded with tourists. Some just look like cities or towns of today, no remains of their ancient monuments can be seen, except maybe in some local museum when there is one - it's the case in Antioch for example. Others are completely deserted, like Cnidus or some Asia Minor ancient cities which once minted coins that are in many collections, but are today just ruins in the wild. I like travelling and visiting places. Of course it was before the Covid pandemic, now it is more difficult, but I think things will soon be back into a certain form of normality. When I was much younger, and rules much less strict than today, I remember there were people in ancient sites who proposed selling (for very moderate prices) ancient coins, or you could find also nice and affordable ones in booths or souvenir shops nearby... Many of my coins have been acquired on the spot. I don't know if many collectors like to visit the places where their coins are from. Provenance for a coin has two meanings : it can be the former collections in which they were, but it also can be the place they were found. [ATTACH=full]1431529[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1431530[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]