The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 2, January 11, 2004, Article 12

WAS LYNN GLASER JOSHING US?

  Regarding Neil Shafer's note about the article on Josh Tatum
  and the gold-plated 1883 "racketeer nickels" in the defunct
  New England Journal of Numismatics, Bob Leonard writes:
  "Very interesting, and I have this issue too.  Unless Lynn Glaser
  came across this story in some obscure periodical (and no one
  has come forward yet to identify an earlier appearance), my
  increasingly strong suspicion is that he made the whole thing up
  to enliven his 1968 book.  (Glaser's career after numismatics is
  extremely interesting -- including time in prison.)  It is amazing
  how his brief account of "Joshua Tatum" turned into the
  elaborate later accounts being quoted here."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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