It appears to me that digging in only in some parts the desert yield scarab coins. It seems that in most of the desert, you can dig forever and never get a coin. It this true?
Bombur Thumper 20:42, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

There are several "spawn points" in the desert. You can locate them thanks to the TibiaNews map, as light gray dots scattered across the deserts, primarily in the Ankrahmun desert. There's a small chance the spawn points contain a scarab coin, but digging on these spots will most often summon a scarab.

Undreas 04:45, March 19, 2010 (UTC)

Time of Respawn

I think the time on digging up these things is 1 hour. Almost 100% sure. (90%!) I took notice of this while doing the Gold Digger achievement so... if it's less than 1h I want proof. :) Ardami 16:10, November 10, 2010 (UTC)

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I used the same square and respawned 2 scarabs with 30~ minutes of difference. Maybe it depends of the number of people online. I play on Luminera, a world with lot of people online all the time.
It will be good if other people from other worlds help us to determine the exact time, or what makes the difference of the respawn time. PD: I'm a serious contributor, so please take serious my contributions » Sez ~ Talk « 17:23, November 10, 2010 (UTC)

I play on a quite dead server, 250~ players online, 300 on peak times, I had 1h resp time there, 100% sure. I take your words seriously, I am a serious contributor as well, not like User:Achievements_Maniac. I just want proof, thats all. Ardami 15:55, November 24, 2010 (UTC)

Chances:

Did some research while doing the achievement. The chance of getting a scarab coin when digging on the special squares are 5%. As you might figure out, there's 95% chance that a scarab will spawn. Done a total of 1248 digs so far, which generated 64 coins. According to the research that 0.51%~, but i think its safe to say that the chances actually are 5% as luck also plays a role ;)

So, if you dig on the squares provided in the screenshots (96 of them), it will take about 20 laps to make it, 20 hours.

Take care,

LordDragonhawk 07:05, November 21, 2011 (UTC)

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I just digged 139 times, 2 of those times was a scarab coin. That's: 1,44%. Maybe I'll add a statistics template later. -- Bennie (talk ~ fellows) 17:48, October 28, 2012 (UTC)

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Sacrificing

Do I have to sacrifice a coin every time i want to go to the deeper tombs or will i stay "open" for a while? Reason I'm askin is cause it feels like a big waste of coins if you really have to sacrifice each time .. ?

Nofeer 18:55, December 6, 2011 (UTC)

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It's every time. Beejay 19:00, December 6, 2011 (UTC)

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Scarab coins aren't that expensive (on my server at least). I bought 2000 for 200gp each (you'd be surprised how slowly they're used) and these new creatures from Horestis' tomb drop them a lot. I wouldn't consider it a waste to spend 200gp to enter a hunting place, consider Goroma one giant hunting place (including Ramoa, Malada and Talahu and Kharos) it's no different from spending 200gp to travel by boat. -- Sixorish 21:02, December 6, 2011 (UTC)