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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 4629934, member: 87200&quot;]Nice scarabs [USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER] - it is strange that the Egyptians never developed a circulating metallic currency until the time of Nectanebo (very late in the Pharaonic cycle) and those were used primarily to pay Greek mercenaries. Of course, Ptolemy changed all of this, and the Romans continued a robust coinage struck in Alexandria for centuries.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me, it seems unusual that there was only one mint (Alexandria) given the length of the country - 845 km between Cairo and Aswan and Alexandria is even further away from the southernmost outpost in Roman times. Instead of Cairo, the Romans built the fortress called Babylon which is in the Old City. Al-Qahira (Cairo) was not really much of a town until the 7th century when the Arabs made it the seat of the country after defeating the Byzantines.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i2.wp.com/see.news/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/fortress-babylon-walls.jpg?resize=600%2C375&amp;ssl=1" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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