The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word ATHENS
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More clues leading to the result ATHENS
- Capital at that time invested in a Society
- Description of heart of classy city
- Capital in Asia then, Seoul
- Birthplace of Plato — as thus written?
- Capital letters reading across from left of keyboard?
- Like stocks subsequently to yield capital
- Capital letters from the outset, if spelling 32
- City seeing wild Thebans losing capital in Boeotia
- Does it suggest a coin from ancient times, and where one may be found?
- Ordering of essential bits of cash as foreign capital
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The cryptic/wordplay part
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