Alan Hager - not off-topic exactly, just weird . . .

[Bob Lemke]

I regret that I never kept a copy of the issue of 1980s Barron's magazine that had a lengthy Hager interview. As I recall he admitted to a number of downright fraudulent activities in the coin field. I've never even had any luck googling Hager/Barron's to try to find the article, although I haven't tried in 5+ years.

He loves to sue people, but when you win a judgement against him, good luck collecting. Krause once obtained a decent four-figure judgment against him but never saw a dime. We "caught" him at a San Francisco show and got a sheriff's deputy to try to collect the judgment out of his inventory, but he slithered out on a technicality and by the time it was cleared up, Hager was nowhere to be found.

His wife royalty? Diane Hager is only a royal pain in the ass. They are truly a match made in hell.