Word: decadrachm
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...learn how fate exacts a terrible price for hubris. Before long he was traveling the ancient trade routes, striking coup after coup. In 1974, when the record price for an ancient coin was about $100,000, he bought the rarest of them all, the 5th century B.C. Athena decadrachm, for a seemingly outlandish $420,000. But within the week he sold it for $470,000. That same year he opened a coin shop on tony Rodeo Drive in the heart of Hollywood...
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