1933 Double Eagle Timeline

Thanks! Good ideas. I should take advantage of the free ANA membership too for the research, now that I've registered for it.

I wonder if they have anything on how the Secret Service operated to find these coins?

Looks like the RCNA library has a copy of that book. I will check it out when things reopen!

Or just buy your own copy on abebooks for about $7.60 (includes shipping)

You can get Illegal Tender at the same site for $4 including shipping.

It's a great read! Got a copy before a long plane trip to read, finished more than half by the time I landed, it was hard to put down, picked it back up later that night in bed, when I should have been sleeping, but had gained a couple hours flying so what the heck, finished the book before I returned from the trip.

Next up was to get "Double Eagle: The Epic Story of the World's Most Valuable Coin" by Alison Frankel. I liked both books, I think David Tripp's book was better researched, while Alison's book read more like a story or novel. It pick's up speed in the second half, while the first half of Alison's book is pretty dry and spends lots of time developing the characters.

I still need to get and read James Twining's book on the story as well. http://www.jamestwining.com/learn-m...double-eagle just one more book for my library, not that there is much more room.

One quick add is this link to a pdf file of the Playboy story that came before and possibly inspired the James Twining's book. http://www.thelizardkingbook.com/bc...yapril04.pdf NOTE: nothing revealing in this story from a Playboy point of view, just a really good article.