A goldsmith's moral struggle between honest labor and the temptation of counterfeiting, ultimately resolved through street-level deception and personal redemption.
Four stories, humorous, romantic or dramatic, are linked by a counterfeit gold sovereign. It is made by the honest engraver in the first story, seduced by the charms of a young widow, and it subsequently passes into the hands of a beggar and a prostitute, a wealthy miser and a newly married couple where the husband is a poor artist.
Yorgos Tzavellas
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