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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