Those were the same symbols, or very similar. And it had a face on the back, that of a man looking straight outward, one eye pierced by a spike. The large coin was made of two different metals, an outside ring and an inner one. The coin certainly didn’t seem old. Was it new, or merely well-preserved? Rust and Ruin . . . how had this gotten into his pocket? The beggar tossed it to me, Wax thought. But where had he gotten it? Were there more of these in circulation?
