Anonymous #1 21h

I’m just as shocked. I’d wanna shop around and make sure to get an authenticated one, but I see no reason this isn’t so far

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Anonymous OP 21h

BRO WHAT I CAN BUY ONE OF THESE ??????? if this is real then i know what im doing today

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Anonymous OP 21h

Like ones that can be traced back to specific collections/digs are really good

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Anonymous OP 21h

dude. This is so cool i didn’t know that they sold these things

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Anonymous #1 21h

The site I see them currently on is fossilsplus, but just search around for “Acheulean Handaxe for sale”

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Anonymous #1 21h

It’s crazy the stuff you can find online for niches like these! I was searching around for ancient coins and found them listed on one of those sites lol

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Anonymous OP 21h

i’m def looking into this, i ended up getting my hands on WW2 wine glasses given to a US Solider from Poland for fighting against the Nazis

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Anonymous #1 21h

Hell yeah that’s badass, I love when you have the actual story behind pieces too. It adds a whole lot to the personal value imo My dad was given a bunch of German currency from one of his WWII vet patients that was given some by locals so technically we’re millionaires lmao (not mine but I have one like that same denomination)

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Anonymous #2 21h

I guess make sure you keep the labels so that it doesn’t get lost or its origins forgotten.

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Anonymous OP 21h

wait that’s also really cool, i love when history is accessible

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Anonymous #2 21h

I 3D print display stands for my historically important pieces, and from my (limited) experiences pieces like these come with a COA if they’re credible so I keep that stored nearby too

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Anonymous #2 21h

But nah I get what you mean, I try to be moral about it. I only look for things that’s have cultural relevance to me. I wouldn’t want to get a 700 year old tribal mask from Benin yk? But like 100000 year old rock from Algeria? That could very well have been my ancestors (and likely everyone’s if mine)

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Anonymous #1 21h

A lot is, but mainly the “benign” stuff. Anything with real cultural or historical significance is gonna be locked in some museum somewhere. This is essentially the scraps museums didn’t want yk. Doesn’t make it any less cool tho

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Anonymous #1 21h

Fyi if ur interested in Roman stuff that nobleromancoins site is gonna drop a new shipment today of “raw” Roman coins just dug up in the past year. They drop some every few months or so. The best ones usually sell out in an hour. They go online sometime between now and noon pacific

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Anonymous #2 21h

One of the coolest experiences I’ve had was seeing a stone tool collection in a museum in Johannesburg, South Africa. They had stuff up to 3 million years old. I’m an atheist but this was basically a spiritual experience for me. Just standing there and looking at tools made by other human species, incomprehensibly long ago.

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Anonymous #2 21h

Getting stuff from Africa is a hard feat, especially with how much they value preserving their history. I went to NYC and got to see actual writings from the Egyptians

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Anonymous #1 21h

I saw the king tut exhibit when it was touring around the US in Philly. I was like 6 at the time so I don’t have pictures but that’s what got me super interested into historical stuff

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Anonymous OP 21h

It’s so cool what people have been able to find from ancient civilizations

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Anonymous OP 20h

The Richmond museum of fine arts in Virginia has a pretty impressive collection of Greek, Roman, and Egyptian artifacts

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Anonymous #2 20h

I gotta say though, visiting Greece and the museums there was absolutely incredible. I’d just be walking through a museum and see specific artifacts that I recognized because of how famous and incredible they are. Like I was in Crete and saw the actual Phaistos Disk, covered in a mysterious heiroglyphic script we still haven’t deciphered.

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Anonymous #2 20h

Minoan art is absolutely incredible. They loved octopuses. If you’re ever in Crete, go to the Heraklion museum. IMO it’s way cooler than the ruins of Knossos, which are the big tourist attraction.

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Anonymous #2 20h

In Athens I saw even more artifacts. The antichythera mechanism, the mask of Agamemnon, actual spear points from the battle of Thermopylae, Venus figurines from some of the oldest Neolithic sites in Europe. It was amazing.

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Anonymous #3 19h

Tbf for stuff like these we’d have no record of any ritualistic belief until like 50000 BCE with cave paintings. But yeah I stay away from known religious stuff (besides Christian relics bc my parents are devout believers and it’s a way for me to connect w them)

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Anonymous OP 19h

Off topic but I’d go bankrupt 10 times to have the voynich manuscript any day of the week, I really want it

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Anonymous #3 19h

Oh my guy do I have a website for you (nothing is affordable but it’s all so cool)

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Anonymous OP 19h

Hell yeah I’ll check it out!

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Anonymous #3 19h

But yeah I’d probably spend $10k on a colonial america map over paying $10k for a Greek statue or smn tbh

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Anonymous #3 19h

This 1580s map is a little under $1000 😅

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Anonymous OP 19h

This is a really cool website

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Anonymous #3 19h

They actually do have some late 1700s maps for less than $200 :D

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Anonymous #3 19h

Alternatively you could get Queen Mary’s personal maps for $1,600,000

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Anonymous #3 19h

OR THE BLUEPRINTS TO THE STATUE OF LIBERTY?!?!!

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