Innholdsfortegnelse for April - May 2025 i COINage

Dwight Manley is the greatest coin collector in the world, widely admired for his talents and achievements. He develops real estate in California but also builds bridges for the coin hobby. Manley is a philanthropist, dealmaker extraordinaire, visionary and former big-time sports agent who once represented Karl Malone and Dennis Rodman, among others. His agency’s former clients are rivaled only by the megastar coin rarities he handled as a dealer. Manley is the recipient of the 2024 Chester L. Krause Memorial Distinguished Service Award from the American Numismatic Association (ANA)—the Congressionally chartered nonprofit organization’s highest honor. He donated more than $3 million in funds and material to establish and sustain the ANA’s Florence Schook School of Numismatics. Schook was his childhood numismatic coach who encouraged him at the 1981 ANA…

Directive to Abolish the ‘Penny’ It looks like the Lincoln head cent, commonly known by Americans as the “penny,” really is doomed. On February 9, 2025, U.S. President Donald J. Trump said he is directing the United States Treasury to stop ordering new one-cent coins from the United States Mint due to the high and rising cost of making the copper-plated zinc coin. “For far too long the United States has minted pennies, which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful,” he posted on Truth Social, his social media platform. He added, “I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies.” President Trump’s post correctly states that it costs more than double the cent’s face value to strike and distribute the…

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As we all know, rare coins are valuable commodities. Even if individual coins are relatively common, the total value of your collection/accumulation can become substantial very quickly. So, how do you keep your collection secure but still be able to enjoy it? The answers are as varied as you can imagine. STORAGE Many people keep their collections in their homes. The advantages are numerous: • You have instant access to your collection. • You are not dependent on business hours at a bank or other secure location to take possession of them. • You need to keep them out of direct sunlight (especially for currency) and keep them dry. • You need to keep them secure, so maybe not showing off your collection makes perfect sense. • You will need…

How do you approach building a collection in the physical crypto category? The answer is relatively simple in that the very same collecting approaches used for traditional rare coins also apply to physical crypto. These approaches are endlessly customizable, but some of the most popular ones include focusing on a particular country, series, denomination, composition, date or other characteristics. One of the most straightforward and satisfying collecting approaches to any category is assembling a type set. A common framework for building a type set is to select a series and acquire an example of each denomination in that series. While there are many great candidates for this among physical crypto, perhaps no series is better suited to this approach than the Lealana series. “A common framework for building a type…

“Since gold is growing so much faster than stocks, hypothetically based on the past quarter-century, gold could reach $24K before the S&P reaches 24,000.” The year 2024 was a good year for stocks, but it was a great year for gold. In fact, you could say that gold won in 2024 as well as in the first quarter of the 21st century. As to both gold and silver together, they were both flat during December 2024 but nonetheless beat stocks. Gold and silver together also turned in an especially impressive performance during the first 25 years of the 21st century. The New Year, 2025, started off well too, with gold up $30-plus while the major stock indexes retreated. Let’s examine the major stock market indexes vs. gold and silver for…