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Mary LaskerMary Lasker
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I often give them away as gifts so that I've given away, I think, as many as I still possess. But I've just bought a very important one which is the coin celebrating the victory of the fleet of Syracuse over the fleet of Athens in 1412 B.C., with the head of Artemis and the marvelous chariot with four horses on the other side, which is considered one of the great coins of Greece; it's the best period and it's just one of the prettiest coins I've ever seen, and in the books it's considered one of the best. I don't know how rare it is. I bought it from a dealer in Paris.

Q:

You'll have to build yourself a museum some day.

Lasker:

Oh, no, it isn't that bad! But what I have is really 19th and 20th Century paintings; those are really most important.





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