David Gee

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wasCriminal Fraudster Numismatist Counterfeiter
Work fieldCrime Social science
Gender
Male
Birth1929
Death13 June 2013 (aged 84 years)
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Biography

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. He became a coin dealer and exhibitor of adult films. Gee created forgeries of some of Australia's rarest coins. In 1979, he was sentenced to seven years gaol for forging coins.

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." Gee died in June 2013.

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