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How a flamboyant thief quietly pulled off an extraordinary coin heist
David Gee stole precious coins from Australia's State Library of NSW in the late 1960s using the pseudonym Robert Lowe, pulling off one of the country's most ambitious heists. The flamboyant Kings Cross restaurateur and coin obsessive accessed the Dixson Collection's 8,000 rare coins without detection. Gee adopted over 70 aliases throughout his life, becoming legendary among numismatists.
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