Illegal Tender by David Tripp

Illegal Tender by David Tripp

It's the stuff myths are made of: the story of a celebrated artefact - the 1933 twenty-dollar gold piece - and its incredible journey from the deathbed of a famous artist to a sybaritic Egyptian king to a vault in the World Trade Centre to a record-breaking auction in July 2002, where it was sold for more than USD7.5 million. In ILLEGAL TENDER David Tripp tells a riveting tale of greed, intrigue and deception as it follows the once-secret trajectory of this amazing coin over the course of nearly a century. In 1905 President Theodore Roosevelt commissioned America's greatest sculptor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, to design what became America's most beautiful coin. At the height of the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt took America off the gold standard and the newly minted but unissued 1933 Double Eagles were melted down. A few escaped, purloined, but were tracked down in a relentless investigation by the Secret Service, confiscated, and destroyed. But somehow, one survived. With its cast of kings, presidents, government agents, shadowy dealers and crooks, ILLEGAL TENDER will keep readers guessing about this priceless disk of gold - the coin that shouldn't be and almost wasn't - until the very end.

David Tripp retired from his full-time position in the School of Education, Murdoch University, Western Australia in 2007, and is now consulting in action inquiry processes in professional and organizational change and development. With a background in Secondary teaching and a Cambridge doctorate, David has published widely in the field of teacher education, professional development, and qualitative research, has been an expert witness at two Australian government inquiries, lectured and held visiting positions in a number of countries from the UK to Mongolia, Canada to Singapore, and is an Associate Editor of the Educational Action Research Journal.

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ISBN 13	9780743245746
ISBN 10	0743245741
Title	Illegal Tender
Author	David Tripp
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Publisher	Simon & Schuster Ltd
Year published	2005-04-18
Number of pages	384
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