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The E-Sylum: Volume 4, Number 47, November 18, 2001, Article 7 THIEVES DON'T HAVE FORKLIFTS HANDY. Dick Johnson writes: "Joe Levine tells the story of a "Panamint ball" of silver in his lot description of a Nevada Silver Centennial Medal (lot 501 in his current auction catalog for his December 2nd Presidential Auction Sale). I find this a fascinating story and would like to learn of the first published reference to Panamint balls of silver in numismatic literature. He quotes Turner, but I am sure this has been published much earlier than that. (Howard L. Turner wrote a series of articles published in The Numismatist on Commemorative Medals Struck at the U.S. Mint; September 1977, etc.). When mines shipped bars of silver from the West coast they were frequently stolen enroute. Their solution was brilliant: Cast the silver into balls large enough no one person could lift it. I would like to learn when this first occurred."

Wayne Homren, Editor

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