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Silver demand shown to outpace supply in 2024

1 week ago | coinworld.com | Paul Gilkes

Industrial demand established a record high 680 million ounces during calendar year 2024, a 4% jump over the previous year, according to “World Silver Survey 2025,” released April 16 by The Silver Institute. The survey was prepared on behalf of The Silver Institute by Metals Focus, a precious metals consultancy headquartered in London, England. Industrial demand for silver reached record highs in each of the last four calendar years.
Measure seeks to establish bullion and specie as currency

2 weeks ago | coinworld.com | Paul Gilkes

Legislation introduced in the Louisiana State Legislature seeks to amend Title 6 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 to recognize gold and silver as currency. State Rep. Raymond Crews, R-Bossier City, prefiled House Bill No. 386 on April 3, and it was read into the record and referred to the House Committee on Commerce on April 14. The measure is identified for the record as HLS 25RS-424 ORIGINAL HB NO. 386.
Stack's Bowers to sell extensive hobo nickel collection

2 weeks ago | coinworld.com | Paul Gilkes

Hobo nickel collector Candace Kagin announced in the Spring 2025 issue of Bo Tales — official journal of the Original Hobo Nickel Society — that she plans to liquidate her more than 600-piece hobo nickel collection in a series of public auctions to be held in 2025 and 2026 by Stack’s Bowers Galleries. The first session will be held in August in Oklahoma City in conjunction with the American Numismatic Association’s World’s Fair of Money there.
First sale planned for gold 1945 FDR inaugural medal

2 weeks ago | coinworld.com | Paul Gilkes

An official 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt fourth-term inaugural medal in gold from the estate of former U.S. Mint director Nellie Tayloe Ross will make its first public auction appearance in Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ 2025 Summer Global Showcase Auction. In bronze, 3,500 examples of the 1945 medal designed by sculptor Jo Davidson were produced by the Mint and sold to the public. Examples of these are re-sold on a regular basis in the secondary market.
Florida Innovation dollar next for 2025 release in May

3 weeks ago | coinworld.com | Paul Gilkes

Bags and rolls of 2025 American Innovation, Florida dollar coins go on sale from the Mint at noon Eastern Time May 15. The Florida dollar is the second of four scheduled for issue in 2025. Product offerings include 25-coin paper-wrapped rolls of circulation finish dollar coins from either the Philadelphia Mint or the Denver Mint, with a retail price per roll of $36.25. Philadelphia Mint and Denver Mint strikes are offered separately in 100-coin canvas mini-bags at $123.50 per bag.
Proof 2025-W American Buffalo due for May issue

3 weeks ago | coinworld.com | Paul Gilkes

At noon May 8, the United States Mint is scheduled to offer for numismatic sale the Proof 2025-W American Buffalo 1-ounce .9999 fine gold $50 coin. Pricing for the coin will be announced closer to the release date, based on market prices and the U.S. Mint’s pricing grid for gold coins (at https://www.usmint.gov/content/dam/usmint/shop/Pricing-Grid.pdf).
Congressional gold medal for heroics at Pearl Harbor

1 month ago | coinworld.com | Paul Gilkes

Legislation has been introduced to recognize posthumously with a congressional gold medal sailor Doris “Dorie” Miller for his heroic actions aboard the USS West Virginia, sunk during the Dec. 7, 1941, surprise aerial attack by Japanese zero aircraft that launched the United States into World War II. Of the battleship’s crew, 132 members were killed during the attack, and 52 were wounded. Miller was one of the survivors.
DOGE looking into potential changes in Mint operations

1 month ago | coinworld.com | Paul Gilkes

Since the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was created, 300 positions have been trimmed from the United States Mint payroll, with efforts to trim 300 more. The Numismatic Product Division is being targeted for complete elimination, with revenue to be redirected from the Mint’s Public Enterprise Fund for other purposes. The 1996 Mint reform legislation created the Public Enterprise Fund for placing revenue from all product sales that support the bureau’s operations.
Planchet supply is enough to keep the cent in production

1 month ago | coinworld.com | Paul Gilkes

The United States Mint is strategically planning to execute efforts at the Philadelphia and Denver Mints to cut back the output of Lincoln cents for general release through the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve remains the U.S. Mint’s lone customer for copper-plated zinc cents, whose production costs more than their face value.
Dahlonega Mint artifact presented to Georgia library

1 month ago | coinworld.com | Paul Gilkes

The door knocker that originally graced the front door of the Dahlonega Mint in Georgia was presented March 13 by a descendant of the facility’s first superintendent to the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries, in Athens, Georgia. The presentation was arranged by Robert L. Harwell II from Hancock and Harwell Rare Coins and Precious Metals in Atlanta.