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Illegal Tender: Gold, Greed, and the Mystery of the Lost 1933 Double Eagle

By David Tripp
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By David Tripp
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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 Ag...

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