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Old 01-18-2011, 05:04 PM  
Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life
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Interesting for sure
If I was rolling in coin, I'd love to get into collecting Egyptian amulets and scarabs. That's a rich man's game though, even the really rough scarabs and partial amulets start around $500. With good specimens starting in that $1200-2000 range. Same goes with Greek pottery, you can get some really nice museum grade stuff, but it's pricey. There's some really really cool shit available though out of private collections from well regarded Egyptologists and archeologists. If you're into collecting this sort of antiquities, the Inca relics a relatively cheap. The locals loot sites and dig the shit up and sell it to resellers for pennies. There's a really good National Geographic documentary of Inca Mummies and antiquities. There's an entire town built right upon a huge burial ground, the children play amongst the scattered bones of their ancestors, and simply digging in your back yard can turn up bundles of relics.
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