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Coin Collection Tells Tale

It would be exciting for anyone to discover a long-lost high quality coin collection. You might anticipate the excitement when such a collection was recently unearthed in Keszhely, Hungary. This collection, however, has a dark side associated with it, being that the find suggests its original owner likely died in the Holocaust during World War Two.

Coin finds, be they single pieces, a hoard,

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