"Five pounds."
"Ah! Is it really worth five piastres?"
"Piastres! Ach! No, no, no! Five pounds!"
"Five pounds a dozen!"
"No, no, no! Five pounds for one beautiful scarab."
"Ha ha!"
"Not ha! ha! It is three thousand years old! Time of Rameses II."
"Too old. Got any nice new ones?"
"No, no. Not new. Old—very valuable—three thousand years!"