Egypt
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- Exhibition: Coins Bring Great Change
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) The Egyptian Museum is holding a temporary exhibition on "Coins Through the Ages". Over the past eight years the museum has hosted a series of temporary exhibitions, the most recent of which focussed on five artefacts...
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- Gold Coins Found In Coptic Alter
A series of 29 Byzantine gold coins has been found in a Pharaonic tomb at Dra Abu el Naga. The tomb was at some time converted into a Coptic chapel and it was within a small column supporting the alter that the coins were found. The coins bear the names...
- Ptolemy Iii Coins
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- Gold Coins Of Emperor Valens
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Egypt
Coins House museum, Dubai
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Dubai Municipality will soon open to public the Coins House, a dedicated museum for nearly 500 ancient coins that were in circulation in the region since time of the Islamic caliphates.
The museum has been set in an ancient historic building that dates back to 1918 and which was restored to its former glory by the Architectural Heritage Department of Dubai Municipality in the Al Bastakiya Heritage District as part of its comprehensive renovation plan for the heritage districts in Al Shindagha, Al Ras and Al Bastakiya.
According to Rashad Bukhash, Director of Architectural Heritage Department at Dubai Municipality, the Coins House consists of several sections including the one which displays information on history of coins. . . .
The fifth room comprises of 45 pieces of coins from ancient Egypt, the region previously known as Belad Al Sham, and Turkey during the rein of the Tulunids who were the first independent dynasty in Islamic Egypt (868-905 AD), the Fatimid Caliphate that ruled over varying areas of the Maghreb, Egypt, and the Levant from 5 January 909 to 1171, the Mamluks, and Othamia Caliphate.
- Exhibition: Coins Bring Great Change
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) The Egyptian Museum is holding a temporary exhibition on "Coins Through the Ages". Over the past eight years the museum has hosted a series of temporary exhibitions, the most recent of which focussed on five artefacts...
- Graeco-roman Artifacts Salvaged In Abu Qir
Egypt State Information Service Ninety-nine Sunken pieces of antiquities were salvaged by the European marine archeological institute mission in association with the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) in the areas of Eastern Port and Heracleum in Abu...
- Gold Coins Found In Coptic Alter
A series of 29 Byzantine gold coins has been found in a Pharaonic tomb at Dra Abu el Naga. The tomb was at some time converted into a Coptic chapel and it was within a small column supporting the alter that the coins were found. The coins bear the names...
- Ptolemy Iii Coins
Nearly 400 Ptolemaic bronze coins have been found north of the Qarun lake in the Fayum oasis. The coins are dated to the reign of Ptolemy III and contain an image of Amun-Zues and are inscribed in Greek....
- Gold Coins Of Emperor Valens
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