Hoard of 2,000-Year-Old Coins Found in Egypt

Discovery News ^ | Thursday, April 22, 2010 | Associated Press

[SunkenCiv]

Archaeologists unearthed 383 bronze coins dating back to King Ptolemy III who ruled Egypt in the 3rd century B.C. and was an ancestor of the famed Cleopatra, Egypt's antiquities authority announced Wednesday...

[SunkenCiv]

The face of the hybrid Greek-Egyptian god Amun-Zeus appears on both of these coins. [Supreme Council of Antiquities]

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[Travis McGee]

I’ll bet they will be worth a pretty penny.

[Andonius_99]

That’s where I dropped ‘em...who do I see about getting these back??? ;)

[Rocky]

You could make some cool belt buckles with this:

http://www.pressapenny.com/machines.htm

[Outlaw Woman]

Absolutely fascinating. Thank you for the ping(s)!

[Constitution Day]

I am surprised they haven’t struck modern coins with the noble visage of Zahi Hawass The Great! /s

[silverleaf]

with interest, the stash is now worth $5.83

[truemiester]

What would happen if you put one on a railroad track?

[LivingNet]

I am surprised they haven’t struck modern coins with the noble visage of Zahi Hawass The Great!

I don't care who you are...that's funny right there!!

[Defiant]

with interest, the stash is now worth $5.83

What do you think they'll say in 1000 years when they find stashes of $100 bills? "Cool, firestarter." Only they'll say it in Chinese.

[null and void]

What do you think they'll say in 1000 years when they find stashes of $100 bills? "Cool, firestarter." Only they'll say it in Chinese.

Or arabic. And they'll have to destroy all of them because the have an image of a person on them.

(Else they fear they'll start worshiping them)

[Constitution Day]

Thanks! I find him extremely arrogant and irritating. I don’t know how one country can hold an ego that large, frankly.

[Defiant]

If they are speaking arabic, they won’t know what fire is.

[LivingNet]

I agree completely!! When he comes on TV I have to change the channel.

[colorado tanker]

Amun-Zeus

A really horny Sun god?

[SunkenCiv]

Zeus-Amun was a blend of the Greek and Egyptian top-dog deities; Serapis was another synthetic deity invented by the Ptolemies. Not bad for a dozen-generation inbred dynasty!

[SunkenCiv]

That wouldn’t work. It would have to be a chariot track.

[SunkenCiv]

“...if it had been invested in a conservative-yield mutual fund...”

[SunkenCiv]

He’s gone a way down the path of getting his noble visage struck from his shoulders over some corruption allegations (I wonder if some of the stuff he’s saying was stolen is actually stuff he was bribed to allow smuggled out?) at least once, and I do feel for the guy, trying to operate under a nutty fake republic on the one hand simultaneously in the midst of a Saudi- and Iranian-funded Islamofascist paramilitary.