Playbill
April, 2004
In Curse of the Double Eagle,Bryan Christy investigates the biggest coin bust in modern history, which involved an iconic--and illegal--1933 gold piece. "When I first got wind of the story," he says, "it bothered me that the U.S. Mint could partner with a smuggler to sell a coin it claimed was stolen from its own vault. But the pull of this coin is amazingly strong. People with every reason not to get involved just couldn't resist helping themselves to their little piece of the pi...
