SECRET SERVICE 1933 DOUBLE EAGLE INTERVIEWS Público Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 5, Number 40, October 6, 2002, Article 5
SECRET SERVICE 1933 DOUBLE EAGLE INTERVIEWS
An article by R.W. Julian in the October 1, 2002 issue of
Numismatic News asserts that the recently auctioned 1933
$20 gold piece is not unique, as many have suspected. In
fact, he states, "in the early 1980s, for example, a friend --
now deceased -- had one of these coins in his possession
for a short time and, if the pedigree of the Farouk coin is
correct (the coin remaining in Egypt until only a few years
ago) then there is at least one specimen in some presently
unknown collection." (p26, col 3).The article features (among much other documentation) a
copy of a U.S. Secret Service report of an interview with
Philadelphia coin dealer Stephen K. Nagy. The agents also
interviewed B. Max Mehl and James Macallister, among
others -- an interesting Freedom of Information Act
discovery. What other finds await?- 2002-10-06
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