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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cplradar, post: 7399868, member: 108985&quot;]<b><i>At roughly the same time, Ernest A. Kehr, the stamp and coin columnist for The New York Herald Tribune, noticed that Stack’s, the famous coin house, was selling the “celebrated collection” of Colonel James Flanagan. Among the last lots was a 1933 Double Eagle described in the catalogue as “excessively rare” and “the first one that ever came up in any public auction.”</i></b></p><p><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p><b><i>&nbsp;</i></b></p><p><b><i>Intrigued, Kehr approached the Mint, asking them how many 1933 Double Eagles had been released to the public. The answer was categorical: none. But faced with Kehr’s evidence the Mint’s acting director, Leland Howard, had no choice but to notify Frank Wilson, the chief of the Secret Service, that at least one and possible more coins had been stolen from the Mint.</i></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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