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The E-Sylum: Volume 4, Number 20, May 13, 2001, Article 9 TALES OF THE GREATEST COIN ROBBERIES Your editor was the victim of a thirty-some year-old practical joke Wednesday night. At a local coin club meeting, longtime collector Chuck Erb brought a small book, about the size of a Redbook, bound in dark green cloth, with lettering in gilt on the cover: "Tales of the Greatest Coin Robberies" Having never heard of such a title, I opened it to find that inside was a 1963 Redbook! Chuck had purchased the book from Ray Bryne in 1974. Skip Culleiton was quicker on the draw and purchased it that night, but he was kind enough to sell it to me yesterday. So assuming the jokester was Bryne himself, the pedigree of this unique rebound Redbook is Byrne-Erb-Culleiton-Homren. The tipoff should have been the author's name: "by Agon Iff". Goniff means thief in Yiddish.

Wayne Homren, Editor

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