Coin Academy
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Why a 2,500-year-old coin still matters—and why I couldn’t leave it behind. A few years ago, before I ever made a pendant, I bought a coin. An Athenian tetradrachm: silver, heavy, scarred, and unmistakably alive. It featured Athena on one...