David Gee (forger)

David Allan Gee (c. 1929 – 13 June 2013) was a Chinese Australian coin expert, dealer, collector, and forger.

Gee was born in rural China and emigrated to Sydney as a boy.[1] He became a coin dealer and exhibitor of adult films.[2] Gee created forgeries of some of Australia's rarest coins. In 1979, he was sentenced to seven years gaol for forging coins.[1]

According to his friend Jim Henderson, controller of the Royal Australian Mint, "the twelve-sided design for the nation's fifty cent piece was substantially Gee's."[3] Gee died in June 2013.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Craddock, Adrian (11 October 2014). "A sticky business". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
  2. ↑ "Coin dealer found guilty". Sydney Morning Herald. 20 January 1979. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
  3. ↑ Crellin, Andrew. "The Pattern 1966 50c". Retrieved 5 December 2016.

Further reading

  • Jeffrey Watson, Don Thomas, and Jack Bennett, Heads I win: the true story of David Gee, Australia's most audacious coin forger (1986).
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