The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 30, July 25, 2004, Article 4

UNSOUGHT FAME FOR OLYMPIC MEDAL COLLECTOR

  Bill Malkmus writes: "Your story (via the AP) about the San
  Diego coin collector's Olympic medal collection did not come
  as a complete "scoop" to me.   I had been to a meeting of the
  San Diego Ancient Numismatic Society three days earlier at
  the home of an unnamed (at least, by me) collector.  He told
  us that he had loaned his Olympic medal collection to a local
  museum for display, under condition of absolute anonymity.
  He was startled to awake and find his name on the front page
  of the local paper, and soon began receiving phone calls from
  various parts of the world.  He did, by the time of the meeting,
  seem to have grown accepting (if not appreciative) of his fifteen
  minutes plus of unsought fame.  (I hope I'm not making it worse
  for him.)  The moral of the story is DON'T accept casual
  assurances of anonymity under such circumstances!  (And he
  does keep his collection in a safe deposit box when he is not
  working on it or displaying it.)"

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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