Coins .. a handful of coins thrown into the air as the last breath of life as a warrior survived the siege of Akragas. And 'the 406 a. C. and Carthage have won the enemy destroyed the city. It will happen again, it is December 28, 1908 this time is the nature of a rebel: a violent earthquake destroyed the city of Messina. To thank the rescuers a noble gives a coin found by chance the commander of a Russian military ship. The coin collection arricchierà the Tsar. Goes on to eagle, the other a crab and a fish. Only a year later, while digging in a field a farmer finds a coin, you know that the village doctor, who oversaw the first years saving his leg, makes collection disobbligarsi wants to give him. Ignores its value but Dr. Gibilaro for the emotion, the only sfiolarla, fell down from his horse and broke his leg, he knows that the money belongs to the last Akragas, knows what it might mean to scholars. Forced to shut the pool, kept at that of Palermo, weeks after returning to town discovers the murder of the farmer and the bitterness of having lost, perhaps forever, the chance to own the precious currency. But who killed the poor Cosimo? About stole the money? Among men in flight, clumsy fences, PS delegates, journalists and emissaries of the court unravels the mystery of money unless a Akragas doubt that hovers in the mind of Dr. Gibilaro, maybe that " money is expressing his desire not to reappear in the world, to return back into the land from which one day they pulled out. " historical reconstruction, myth and reality made plausible on a short story that is read with the participation and enthusiasm.
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