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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 3591638, member: 87200&quot;]I&#039;ve purchased coins from the U.A.E. and have never had any problems, fortunately. However, on my last trip to Egypt and Jordan I stayed for four months in those countries. When I get back to the U.S. I was grilled by U.S. customs at the San Francisco airport for two hours asking what I had done in those countries for so long. They also searched my backpack, took everything out, were irritated and suspicious because I had a pocket-book size Qu&#039;ran in Arabic given to me by a professor at Al-Azhar who used to teach at UC Berkeley when I was a student there - which I kept largely to humor the locals if I ever got in trouble with Islamists (which I did on one occasion in Kom Ombo in Upper Egypt) so having the book was very helpful in warding off unwanted attention and showing respect for the local religion. </p><p><br /></p><p>In Egypt I was accustomed to waking up at 5am because of the first call to prayer from the mu&#039;ezzins blaring from every mosque!</p><p><br /></p><p>They said they would research my background and do another interview in a couple of days if it was &quot;warranted&quot;. Nothing happened after that. But it was a real pain.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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