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<p>[QUOTE="John Conduitt, post: 6569458, member: 109923"]I too got my first 'ancients' at Petra in Jordan. If I remember correctly they were terrible fakes - huge lumps of metal that I think were supposed to be Roman. The guy that showed me around the local museum even begged me to buy some secretly from him when he suspected I might not tip him.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, I have some genuine Nabatean coins from Petra itself - I have no idea why they didn't sell fakes of these as they are crude but attractive.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Malichus II Prutah, 40-70</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1263868[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Raqmu (Petra). Bronze, 16.6mm, 2.9g. Malichus II and Queen Shaquilath/Šagīlat II. Two crossed cornucopias, Aramaic legend "Malichus, Shaquilath" in two lines (Meshorer 140).</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Conduitt, post: 6569458, member: 109923"]I too got my first 'ancients' at Petra in Jordan. If I remember correctly they were terrible fakes - huge lumps of metal that I think were supposed to be Roman. The guy that showed me around the local museum even begged me to buy some secretly from him when he suspected I might not tip him. Now, I have some genuine Nabatean coins from Petra itself - I have no idea why they didn't sell fakes of these as they are crude but attractive. [B]Malichus II Prutah, 40-70[/B] [ATTACH=full]1263868[/ATTACH] [B]Raqmu (Petra). Bronze, 16.6mm, 2.9g. Malichus II and Queen Shaquilath/Šagīlat II. Two crossed cornucopias, Aramaic legend "Malichus, Shaquilath" in two lines (Meshorer 140).[/B][/QUOTE]
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