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Editor: Here we have "Coin of Perge under Salonina" from the Harvard Art Museums. Looking at this coin evokes a feeling of ancient history, almost like holding time in your hands. What do you see when you look at this object? Curator: Well, I see a portal. Think about it: this coin, worn smooth by countless hands, connected people in ways we can only imagine. Salonina, peering out from one side, probably never envisioned us peering back across millennia. What stories could this little bronze disc tell, eh? Editor: I never thought of it as a portal, more like just old money. But I get what you mean. It does connect us to a distant past. Curator: Exactly! It's about touching the echo of another world. And that, my dear, is the magic of art – even in the humblest coin.