The silver tetradrachm of King Herod Antipas is the most expensive artifact on earth, because it is one of the thirty coins that Judas Iscariot received for his deed. It is the price of the greatest betrayal and the greatest self-sacrifice in human history. There is a legend that this fateful coin carries dark energy and brings only misfortune and suffering to its owner—yet the number of those who want to possess it doesn’t lessen.
For many years the artifact was carefully hidden in a secret hiding place, but one day it surfaced—triggering a chain of strange deaths.
An amateur detective, Nadezhda Lebedeva, of course couldn’t miss such an exciting and dangerous case—especially since the person at the center of events turned out to be her best friend.