QUERY: INFORMATION ON HENRY A. MERTON SOUGHT

Web site visitor Michael Chazin writes:

This book chronicled the events of the silver price run up and the unsuccessful attempt by the Hunt Brothers to corner silver. Of course there were some dramatic events after the book was published, like the auction sale of the Hunt’s notable ancient coin collection (and the ultimate sale of so much of their assets).

I hope this book is the source of the story I have repeated often. The Hunts took possession of tons and tons of silver and wanted to get it to Europe. How? They flew their ranch hands (read gun-toting cowboys) to New York. Picked up the silver at a refinery in New Jersey. Drove it to Kennedy International with the ranch hands riding shotgun over all that silver. They oversaw it loaded onto a plane, climbed aboard and flew it off to Belgium, I believe. The shotgun delivery protected the other end, as well.

Merton’s book is excellent; recommend for E-Sylum readers.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: THE GREAT SILVER MELT – MAKE THAT THE ‘BIG’ SILVER MELT (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v09n19a10.html)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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