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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…

The Monnaie de Paris began striking coins in 864 AD, almost a millennium before America’s first mint opened. By the late 19th century, it introduced the 20 Franc gold Rooster, a coin that became one of Europe’s most trusted fractional gold pieces. French gold coinage evolved through monarchies, revolutions, and republics, but the Rooster of…

This coin has a double layer of history. Not only is it a proof Indian Head Quarter Eagle, but it hails from the famed Simpson Collection. Today, Bob Simpson is co-chairman of the Texas Rangers baseball team. But when he was a boy, he was just an aspiring coin collector, combing through rolls of coins…