Description
Middle East: 10 Coin Boxed Collection. The Fertile Crescent, where life began. The ancient civilizations of Sumeria, Akkadia, Babylon, and Egypt. The Sphinx and the pyramids. Judaea and the Kingdom of David. Damascus, the oldest continuous city in the world. The Biblical Holy Land: Bethlehem, where Jesus was born, and Jerusalem, where He died. The ruins of Petra and Palmyra. Alexandria and Antioch. Mecca, where Muhammad was born, and Medina, where he rose to power. The Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. And now, beneath the desert sands, the oil that powers our world. This is the Middle East. This collection contains modern coins from 10 of the region’s most important countries.