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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 3847179, member: 87200&quot;]Nice [USER=87404]@Justin Lee[/USER] - some great examples and also a nice envelope in there. You mentioned the provenance of the Dattari 5596 coin (Reverend McGill) so he must have got it (and probably lots of other coins) in Egypt. The weird thing is that I have been in the country several times (most recently during the Arab Spring) and I have never seen a Ptolemaic or Roman Egypt coin for sale. However a couple of dealers in other Arab countries seem to have lots of them available (in the hundreds) so my theory is that most of them are squirreled out of the country by clandestine brokers (or smugglers of antiquities) who also make a market in small statuettes of the gods, scarabs, oil lamps, and ushabtis.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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