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The E-Sylum: Volume 7, Number 20, May 16, 2004, Article 19 FEATURED WEB SITE This week's featured web site is Court TV's Crime Library section on Mark Hofmann and what came to be known as the Mormon Forgery Murders. From Chapter 14: "Once Mark Hofmann began to talk, he spoke freely of his many deals. As a kid, he had loved explosives and magic. He also liked to enrich himself and had shown a streak of dishonesty. He learned quickly how to fool people and he enjoyed that sense of power. Then he turned to outright fraud. By age 12, he had acquired an electroplate machine and learned to build up the mintmark--a 'D'--on a Denver dime, because it made the otherwise ordinary coin worth thousands of dollars. Then he located a coin dealer to authenticate it through the U.S. Treasury..." "When he was 13, Hofmann began to collect Mormon memorabilia, and then to manufacture them on his own. As he learned how to trade these items, he grew obsessed with the church's history and he went on to become a dealer in rare documents. At first he created and sold only fragments, but then he worked on longer pieces and invited investors into Ponzi schemes, borrowing from one to pay another." crime Library Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@coinlibrary.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum | |
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