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V4 2001 INDEX       E-SYLUM ARCHIVE

The E-Sylum: Volume 4, Number 17, April 22, 2001, Article 4 GREAT DEBATE STILL RAGES The "Great Debate" over the authenticity of a number of Western gold assay bars, discussed in depth in earlier E-Sylum issues, lives on in legal proceedings. As reported in The April 1, 2001 issue (v4#14), a libel suit filed in New York against Prof. Theodore V. Buttrey by Stack's LLC and John Jay Ford, Jr. was dismissed by the court in December 2000 for lack of jurisdiction. In the latest development, reported by David L. Ganz in his "Under the Glass" column in the April 24, 2001 issue of Numismatic News (p28-29), the plaintiffs have refiled their complaint in the Northern District of Illinois, where the remarks in question were made at a forum at the American Numismatic Association convention in August 1999. Ganz reported: "Reached in England, Buttrey remarked on the dismissal and refiling: "The plaintiffs have now reopened their case in Illinois, where I spoke on the bars at the 1999 ANA meeting. While that is proceeding I continue to work on this material and am preparing a set of essays on various aspects of the Western gold bars, which I believe to be fraudulent."

Wayne Homren, Editor

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