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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 3541476, member: 87200&quot;]I&#039;m hovering over the buy button on a very nice drachm of Antinous - which would be great to add to my collection of Roman Egypt which is something I&#039;ve been focusing on recently. Quite pricey but I imagine it might fetch an even higher price at auction. It would mean something to me since I have been to the site of the city built in his honor by Hadrian. Now it is called El Sheikh Ibada. Very little remains of the ancient city even though in the 3rd century it was upgraded to the capital of the Thebaid and even had six-storey buildings according to one account. Most of the marble buildings were dismantled to build sugar cane kilns, which if you visit you see everywhere in the area. The crop grown in the region right now is exclusively sugar cane for export. In the old days it was of course corn (wheat).</p><p><br /></p><p>The locals consider the place to be haunted by evil jinn so it&#039;s a bid hard to get to. I rented a donkey for my trip. Yes, it&#039;s kind of fun riding a donkey.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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