The E-Sylum:  Volume 4, Number 20, May 13, 2001, Article 9

TALES OF THE GREATEST COIN ROBBERIES 

   Your editor was the victim of a thirty-some year-old 
   practical joke Wednesday night.  At a local coin club 
   meeting, longtime collector Chuck Erb brought a small 
   book, about the size of a Redbook, bound in dark 
   green cloth, with lettering in gilt on the cover: 
   "Tales of the Greatest Coin Robberies" 

   Having never heard of such a title, I opened it to find 
   that inside was a 1963 Redbook!   Chuck had purchased 
   the book from Ray Bryne in 1974.   Skip Culleiton was 
   quicker on the draw and purchased it that night, but he 
   was kind enough to sell it to me yesterday.  So assuming 
   the jokester was Bryne himself, the pedigree of this unique 
   rebound Redbook is Byrne-Erb-Culleiton-Homren. 

   The tipoff should have been the author's name: "by Agon 
   Iff".   Goniff means thief in Yiddish. 

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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