Search Details

Word: decadrachm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bruce McNall: Fall of the Collector | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

| 1 |