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Heads I Win - The True Story of David Gee, Australia's Most Audacious Coin Forger

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Description:David Gee, a world authority on stamps and Australian colonial coins, and an expert forger with over seventy aliases, eluded the security systems of Australia's most prestigious museums and libraries. He removed rare and valuable gold coins from the Royal Australian Mint, and plundered the Dixson Collection of the State Library of New South Wales, replacing priceless gold coins with counterfeits made from original dies stolen from the Collection.Detective Chief Inspector Don Thomas battled bureaucratic red tape, frustrating false leads and the forger's cunning before bringing Gee to trial, after tracking his activities through houses in Los Angeles, New York, Montreal, London, Belfast and Zurich.Heads I Win captures the excitement of the chase while exploring the fascinating world of the numismatist and forger who, in the words of his sentencing judge, "stole part of Australia's heritage".We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Heads I Win - The True Story of David Gee, Australia's Most Audacious Coin Forger. To get started finding Heads I Win - The True Story of David Gee, Australia's Most Audacious Coin Forger, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 175

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Angus and Robertson Publishers

Release: 1986

ISBN: 0207152462

Description: David Gee, a world authority on stamps and Australian colonial coins, and an expert forger with over seventy aliases, eluded the security systems of Australia's most prestigious museums and libraries. He removed rare and valuable gold coins from the Royal Australian Mint, and plundered the Dixson Collection of the State Library of New South Wales, replacing priceless gold coins with counterfeits made from original dies stolen from the Collection.Detective Chief Inspector Don Thomas battled bureaucratic red tape, frustrating false leads and the forger's cunning before bringing Gee to trial, after tracking his activities through houses in Los Angeles, New York, Montreal, London, Belfast and Zurich.Heads I Win captures the excitement of the chase while exploring the fascinating world of the numismatist and forger who, in the words of his sentencing judge, "stole part of Australia's heritage".We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Heads I Win - The True Story of David Gee, Australia's Most Audacious Coin Forger. To get started finding Heads I Win - The True Story of David Gee, Australia's Most Audacious Coin Forger, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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