Antiquities For Sale

When I was visiting a friend of mine over the summer, he took me to look at some Greek coins for sale. I had never really understood his fascination with coin collecting before, and to tell you the truth I wasn’t particularly excited about the trip. Nonetheless, he needed to go, and I was enjoying catching up with him. There was an antiquity for sale that he was extremely interested in purchasing, and the opportunity was limited. Reluctantly, I agreed to go along.

It turned out to be a store that specialized in selling a wide variety of antiquities for sale. There were treasures from practically every land and from thousands of years of time. In addition to Greek and Roman gold coins for sale, there were altars from India, ritual daggers from the Aztec Empire, and strange amulets which I couldn’t recognize as belonging to any culture I had ever heard of. There was even a modern altar there that had been made out of neon a few years previous by some artist as a commission for the store’s owner. Oddly enough, people had left coins as offerings at the base of it.