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The E-Sylum: Volume 4, Number 28, July 8, 2001, Article 6 OTHER NUMISMATIC HOAXES Bowers continues: "Bob Bashlow also participated in a few other hoaxes, such as under the pseudonym of T. Wellington Braithwaite, a "wealthy eastern investor" who bought heavily, he said, then was puzzled when other dealers criticized the grades of what he had bought elsewhere. Typical T.W.B. caper (I will not name names here, but I know them): T.W.B. telephones Dealer A (and records the conversation): "This is T. Wellington Braithwaite. You probably don't remember me, but a few years ago I bought many rare coins from you. I took them to [Dealer B] and he said, 'All of these coins are overgraded.' You've been taken." "What does 'overgraded' mean?" Thereupon Dealer A told T.W.B. what a super-jerk Dealer B was, etc., etc. Another hoax in numismatics was the "fake auction" in the 1950s conducted by R.H. Burnie, a Pascagoula, Mississippi dealer and specialist in small-denomination California gold, who later ran off with the proceeds."

Wayne Homren, Editor

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