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Author : Roger Burdette
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781633514621
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles written by Roger Burdette and published by . This book was released on 2018-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Q. David Bowers
Publisher : Whitman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780794817848
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Guide Book of Double Eagle Gold Coins written by Q. David Bowers and published by Whitman Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive book about United States $20 gold coins.
Author : David Tripp
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439100292
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book Illegal Tender written by David Tripp and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the most valuable ounce of gold in the world, the celebrated, the fabled, the infamous 1933 double eagle, illegal to own and coveted all the more, sought with passion by men of wealth and with steely persistence by the United States government for more than a half century—it shouldn't even exist but it does, and its astonishing, true adventures read like "a composite of The Lord of the Rings and The Maltese Falcon" (The New York Times). In 1905, at the height of the exuberant Gilded Age, President Theodore Roosevelt commissioned America's greatest sculptor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens—as he battled in vain for his life—to create what became America's most beautiful coin. In 1933 the hopes of America dimmed in the darkness of the Great Depression, and gold—the nation's lifeblood—hemorrhaged from the financial system. As the economy teetered on the brink of total collapse, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his first act as president, assumed wartime powers while the nation was at peace and in a "swift, staccato action" unprecedented in United States history recalled all gold and banned its private ownership. But the United States Mint continued, quite legally, to strike nearly a half million 1933 double eagles that were never issued and were deemed illegal to own. In 1937, along with countless millions of other gold coins, they were melted down into faceless gold bars and sent to Fort Knox. The government thought they had destroyed them all—but they were wrong. A few escaped, purloined in a crime—an inside job—that wasn't discovered until 1944. Then, the fugitive 1933 double eagles became the focus of a relentless Secret Service investigation spearheaded by the man who had put away Al Capone. All the coins that could be found were seized and destroyed. But one was beyond their reach, in a king's collection in Egypt, where it survived a world war, a revolution, and a coup, only to be lost again. In 1996, more than forty years later, in a dramatic sting operation set up by a Secret Service informant at the Waldorf-Astoria, an English and an American coin dealer were arrested with a 1933 double eagle which, after years of litigation, was sold in July 2002 to an anonymous buyer for more than $7.5 million in a record-shattering auction. But was it the only one? The lost one? Illegal Tender, revealing information available for the first time, tells a riveting tale of American history, liberally spiced with greed, intrigue, deception, and controversy as it follows the once secret odyssey of this fabulous golden object through the decades. With its cast of kings, presidents, government agents, shadowy dealers, and crooks, Illegal Tender will keep readers guessing about this incomparable disk of gold—the coin that shouldn't be and almost wasn't—until the very end.
Author : James Twining
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007389582
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Double Eagle written by James Twining and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Bond meets The Thomas Crown Affair in a spellbinding tale of international intrigue and suspense. Now available in e-book format for the first time.
Author : Ivy Press
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781599670584
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Coinage of Augustus Saint-Gaudens written by Ivy Press and published by Heritage Capital Corporation. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David W. Akers
Publisher : Zyrus Press
ISBN 13 : 1933990147
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Handbook of 20th-Century U.S. Gold Coins 1907-1933 written by David W. Akers and published by Zyrus Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David W. Akers' Handbook of 20th Century U.S. Gold Coins was hailed as a classic from its first publication date in 1988. Now, two decades later, this second edition offers a much expanded and updated version of its predecessor. A chronological survey of date and mintmark of the much celebrated Saint-Gaudens and Pratt's $2.50, $5, $10 and $20 gold coins is featured, with all new information on gold Proof coins. Each coin's characteristics are broken down into Strike, Luster, Color, Surfaces, and Eye Appeal, including rarity, total known by grade and values, and complimented by full color gold coin images. Significant Examples of each coin, auction appearances and prices realized also make a debut in this new edition.
Author : Jeff Garrett (Numismatist)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780794825614
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book 100 Greatest U.S. Coins written by Jeff Garrett (Numismatist) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third edition of the best-selling and award-winning 100 Greatest U.S. Coins, numismatic author Jeff Garrett takes the reader on a personal guided tour of the nation's greatest coinage. "Each of the 100 Greatest was voted into place by leading coin dealers, researchers, and historians," says Whitman publisher Dennis Tucker. Inside the reader will find prized and seldom-seen rarities - the unique and high-valued pieces that collectors dream about, like the 1913 Liberty Head nickel and the 1804 dollar (the "King of American Coins"). The book also explores more readily available and widely popular coins: pieces so beautiful or with such strange and facinating stories that everybody wants one. By Jeff Garrett. Hardcover, 144 Full Color Pages, Metallic-Foil Cover.
Author : Stephen W. King
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525559990
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Download or read book All That Glisters Is Not Gold written by Stephen W. King and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the death of his beloved grandfather, Lucas Bitterman discovers he and his family have inherited a priceless collection of twenty-dollar gold pieces minted in the early twentieth century. The will also stipulated that Luke is the sole protector of the collection’s crowning piece: a 1933 Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle, one of only a handful known to exist. With the help of a numismatist trusted by his grandfather, Luke learns that not only is the coin worth millions of dollars, it is also viewed as stolen by the federal government. It is illegal to own, impossible to publicly sell, and highly desired by both wealthy collectors and common street thugs. Fearing for the safety of his family, Luke is thrown into a dilemma. How can he deal with this problematic inheritance?
Author : James Barron
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1925584070
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Download or read book The One Cent Magenta written by James Barron and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it was issued in 1856, it cost a penny. When it was sold at Sotheby’s in 2014, the tiny square of faded red paper known as the one-cent magenta cost nearly $US9.5 million, making it the world’s most valuable object by weight. Printed in what was then British Guiana, one-cent magentas were provisional stamps intended for local newspapers. Most were later thrown out, but one survived. Discovered by a young boy in 1873, the stamp has since been through the hands of nine fanatical owners including an Australian-born engineer, a convicted murderer, and a fabulously wealthy Frenchman who hid it from view (not even King George V of England could get a peek). The One-Cent Magenta weaves a fascinating tale of obsession to own the world’s most fragile treasure, and the extraordinary characters who have loved and lost it.
Author : Charles Lewis Hind
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book Augustus Saint-Gaudens written by Charles Lewis Hind and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
