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14: Sicily, Syracuse, Tetradrachm

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.