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The E-Sylum:  Volume 4, Number 17, April 22, 2001, Article 4

GREAT DEBATE STILL RAGES 

   The "Great Debate" over the authenticity of a number of 
   Western gold assay bars, discussed in depth in earlier 
   E-Sylum issues, lives on in legal proceedings.  As 
   reported in The April 1, 2001 issue (v4#14), a libel 
   suit filed in New York against Prof. Theodore V. Buttrey 
   by Stack's LLC and John Jay Ford, Jr. was dismissed by 
   the court in December 2000 for lack of jurisdiction. 

   In the latest development, reported by David L. Ganz in 
   his "Under the Glass" column in the April 24, 2001 issue 
   of Numismatic News (p28-29), the plaintiffs have refiled 
   their complaint in the Northern District of Illinois, where 
   the remarks in question were made at a forum at the 
   American Numismatic Association convention in August 
   1999. 

   Ganz reported: "Reached in England, Buttrey remarked 
   on the dismissal and refiling: "The plaintiffs have now 
   reopened their case in Illinois, where I spoke on the bars 
   at the 1999 ANA meeting.  While that is proceeding I 
   continue to work on this material and am preparing a 
   set of essays on various aspects of the Western gold 
   bars, which I believe to be fraudulent." 

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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