Let X ∼ f ( x − 2 ) and let (X) be the generalized Bayes estimator of with respect to a spherically symmetric prior, ( 2 ), for loss − 2 . We show that if (t) is superharmonic, non-increasing, and has a non-decreasing Laplacian, then the generalized Bayes estimator is minimax and dominates the usual minimax estimator 0 (X)=X under certain conditions on f ( ). The class of priors includes priors of the form 1 A+ 2 k for k p 2 − 1 and hence includes the fundamental harmonic prior 1 p−2 . The class of sampling distributions includes certain variance mixtures of normals and other functions f (t) of the form e − t and e − t+ (t ) which are not mixtures of normals. The proofs do not rely on boundness or monotonicity of the function r(t) in the representation of the Bayes estimator as (X) = 1 − ar(t) t X.