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This is one of my personal favorites: a young woman from Syracuse
around 450 BC. The only coin that the famous Jewish coin dealer
Jakob Hirsch of Munich, later Paris and Geneva and finally New York,
used to carry on him and the only coin he never sold. A remarkable
fact since it was his profession to sell art. Except for this very
coin he kept nothing for himself. This coin was found at his death
on a hot summer's day in July 1955 in Paris in the right pocket
of his jacket.
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