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There are gold dollars. And then there’s this gold dollar. In 1867, the Philadelphia Mint struck just 5,200 gold dollars. Of those, only a handful survived the 150 years in anything close to pristine condition. Today’s coin did, and somewhere along the way, it caught the eye of Harry W. Bass Jr. Bass built one…

The Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh to be the Federal Reserve’s 17th chairman, replacing outgoing Chair Jerome Powell. Mr. Warsh is stepping into a role widely considered to be the most powerful central banker in the world, some even say the most powerful person in the world. However, the Fed Chair is often in the background…

It’s not just central banks, individual investors and family offices that have been buying physical gold in recent years, cryptocurrency firms are gobbling up bullion too. In the secretive gold market, the crypto company Tether Holdings, SA is now the largest known holder of bullion outside of central banks and governments. In the first three…

The 1883 5 dollar gold coin proof is one of the more elusive coins in American gold coinage.  The Philadelphia Mint struck just 61 examples that year – not for circulation, but for a small group of collectors who purchased them directly through the mint. Of those 61, only a fraction are traceable today. That…

Not every coin bearing a historic date was struck in that year. Governments and authorized mints have long produced coins using earlier dates as a deliberate continuation of a recognized design or bullion standard. These coins are known as restrikes. They are official, disclosed, and actively traded. Some circulate as affordable fractional gold. Others carry…