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?

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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