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David Gee, a world authority on stamps and Australian colonial coins, and an expert forger with over seventy aliases, eluded the security systems of Australia's most prestigious museums and libraries. He removed rare and valuable gold coins from the Royal Australian Mint, and plundered the Dixson Collection of the State Library of New South Wales, replacing priceless gold coins with counterfeits made from original dies stolen from the Collection.Detective Chief Inspector Don Thomas battled bureaucratic red tape, frustrating false leads and the forger's cunning before bringing Gee to trial, after tracking his activities through houses in Los Angeles, New York, Montreal, London, Belfast and Zurich.Heads I Win captures the excitement of the chase while exploring the fascinating world of the numismatist and forger who, in the words of his sentencing judge, "stole part of Australia's heritage".