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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8054143, member: 128351&quot;]About the origin and purpose of these graffiti... Thanks for the links. The theory of André Lemaire and Josette Elayi is that they were - perhaps - made by mercenaries. Why not? But were they made in Babylonia, in Phoenicia, in Philistia, in Egypt? To know this, one should have to look for these graffiti among coins with a known origin. For example among the coins of the 1973 Iraq hoard, which was found near Babylon, and compare with coins of the Demanhur hoard, and other hoards of Alexander coins found in Israel or Syria, or the Meydancikkale hoard from Turkey (a bit later, it&#039;s ptolemaic).</p><p>Have you seen my suggestion about where your coin may have been found? I think Gaza is a serious possibility... (and the other Alexander too).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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