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Stefan Gleason is President of the Sound Money Defense League, a national grassroots lobbying organization working to restore gold & silver to their historical role as America's constitutional money. He also leads Money Metals Exchange, a national precious metals dealer with over 50,000 customers. Gleason has frequently appeared on national television networks such as CNN, FoxNews, & CNBC, & his writings have appeared in hundreds of publications such as the Wall Street Journal, TheStreet.com, Seeking Alpha, Detroit News, Washington Times, & National Review.

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Look For THESE $12 Quarters IMMEDIATELY!

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Look For THESE $12 Quarters IMMEDIATELY!

$12 Silver Quarters Explained (Pre-1965 90% Silver)

A pre-1965 quarter isn’t just “25 cents.” If it was minted before 1965, it’s a 90% silver quarter (often called junk silver or constitutional silver)—and with silver above $64 per troy ounce, one of these classic quarters can be worth around $12 in silver value.

In this video, Mike Maharrey shows a 1962 Washington quarter and explains why older U.S. coins contain real silver, while modern quarters are a cheap clad alloy. You’ll also hear why the term “junk silver” is backwards—and what this $12 quarter reveals about currency devaluation, inflation, and why many people choose to hold gold and silver as real money.

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Don’t Throw These: .999 Silver Throwing Stars (1/2 oz Each)

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Don’t Throw These: .999 Silver Throwing Stars (1/2 oz Each)

Most throwing stars (aka throwing star gear) and ninja stars (a ninja star) are cheap. These are .999 fine silver.

In this clip, Mike Maharrey shows off two collectible shuriken—the flat, star-style hira shuriken that many people simply call a throwing blade or throwing blades.

Each throwing star contains 1/2 troy ounce of .999 silver, comes with a leather case to help keep your fingers safe from the sharp edges, and features detailed designs: one ninja star shows a human skull, and the other shuriken features a close-up dragon.

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Money Printer Go Brrrr!

The mainstream financial media buried the lede in its reporting on last week’s Fed meeting.

They reported on the rate cut. They sliced and diced the dot plots. They analyzed every syllable coming out of Jerome Powell’s mouth. But they barely mentioned the biggest story – the Fed just restarted quantitative easing (QE).

In this week’s Midweek Memo podcast, host Mike Maharrey covers the stuff the mainstream reporters left out. He explains what the Fed plans to do, why it is QE no matter what they call it, and how it will impact normal people.

Hint: it means more inflation.

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120 Years of U.S. Silver Half Dollars in 60 Seconds

120 Years of U.S. Silver Half Dollars in 60 Seconds

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From the 1800s to the modern era—no narration, just the shine.

This silent video showcases 120 years of U.S. Mint half dollars, featuring:

• 1901 Barber Half Dollar

• 1935 & 1945 Walking Liberty Half Dollar

• 1962 Benjamin Franklin Half Dollar

• 1997 Kennedy Half Dollar

• 1893 Christopher Columbus Commemorative Half Dollar

• Liberty Seated (Sitting Liberty) Half Dollar

• 1982 George Washington 250th Anniversary Commemorative Half Dollar

A quick, visual timeline of iconic American coin designs—classic circulating issues and historic commemoratives—side by side.

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5 oz Silver Quarter?! Gettysburg ATB Bullion Coin

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5 oz Silver Quarter?! Gettysburg ATB Bullion Coin

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It looks like a quarter… but it’s five ounces of silver.

In this quick clip, Mike Maharrey (Money Metals) shows an oversized America the Beautiful (ATB) silver coin—featuring the Gettysburg design. These 5 oz ATB coins honor U.S. national parks, monuments, and historic sites, making them a fun blend of silver stacking and collecting.

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In this video:

Quarter vs. 5 oz ATB size comparison

Why the ATB series is a collector favorite

The “chunk of change” feel of 5 troy ounces of silver

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Gold & Silver Volatile on Fed Rate Moves, Interventions

Exclusive interview with Edward Sterck of the World Platinum Investment Council. Edward shares the drivers behind the recent price gains over the last couple of years in the Platinum Group Metals, but discusses how the prospects for the two main metals in that group – platinum and palladium – have different looking outlooks over the longer term.

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These are NOT LEGO SETS: They are PURE SILVER Building Blocks

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These are NOT LEGO SETS: They are PURE SILVER Building Blocks

Want to keep your sense of childhood joy while stacking silver bars?

Getting the silver building blocks from Money Metals encourages you to treasure your happiness while building your stack of silver bars.

These silver bars are in the practical yet fun design of traditional building blocks, a remnant of the childhood toys that so many of us loved.

You can create your own stackable designs, build a little house or cabin, build a bridge, build a statue, build whatever your imagination and stacks will allow. The more of these 99.9% pure silver bars you get, the more you can stack, and the more creative you can get.

With each bar weighing one

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“Hawkish” Rate Cut? The Fed Quietly Turned the Money Printer Back On

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“Hawkish” Rate Cut? The Fed Quietly Turned the Money Printer Back On

“Hawkish” rate cut… or just more easy money with better PR? 🧐💸

In this episode, Money Metals analyst Mike Maharrey breaks down the Fed’s December meeting and explains why the so-called “hawkish” rate cut looks a lot more like the same old money printing.

While Wall Street obsessed over dot plots and Powell’s press conference spin, the Fed quietly teed up a new round of balance-sheet expansion by buying short-term Treasuries.

They won’t call it quantitative easing—they’ll dress it up as “reserve management” and “technical operations” 🤹‍♂️—but if it walks like QE and quacks like QE… does the label really matter?

Mike shows how these moves:

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Inside America’s Debt Black Hole: The Arena Your Card Built

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Inside America’s Debt Black Hole: The Arena Your Card Built

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Mike Maharrey is in Washington, D.C., standing in front of Capital One Arena – literally “the arena your credit card built.” It’s a perfect symbol of America’s record-high credit card debt and the DEBT BLACK HOLE created by decades of easy-money policies from the Federal Reserve.

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In this short street clip, Mike connects the dots between:

✅ Soaring credit card balances

✅ The Fed’s obsession with cheap money

✅ And why the costs of today’s debt-fueled prosperity are coming due tomorrow

The Capitals and the Wizards have a shiny place to play. But behind the bright lights is a nation buried in

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Did Silver Break a Fundamental Law of Demand?

Some laws were made to be broken!

So, has silver cracked the fundamental relationship between price and demand?

It appears that way, as silver demand is increasing even as the price skyrockets.

In this episode of the Midweek Memo podcast, host Mike Maharrey explains this apparent break in fundamental laws of supply and demand and explores whether silver is what is known as a Giffen good. If so, it could signal even more explosive upside for the silver price in the months ahead.

Mike also covers the recent resurgence in central bank gold buying.

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This Silver Coin from Armenia is HUGE!

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This Silver Coin from Armenia is HUGE!

This Silver Coin from Armenia is HUGE! In this Money Metals Exchange video, we take a close-up look at a massive 5 kilogram Armenian silver coin and show you just how big—and beautiful—it really is. If you’ve only ever handled 1 oz silver rounds, this monster coin will completely reset your sense of scale.

For reference, 5 kilograms of silver is 5,000 grams, or about 160.75 troy ounces of silver—all packed into a single, enormous coin.

Coin Specs (Armenia 5 kg Silver Coin):

• Weight: 5,000 g (5 kg)
• Pure Silver Content: 5,000 g (.999+ fine)
• Condition: New, Brilliant Uncirculated (BU)
• Diameter: 149.6 mm
• Thickness: 29 mm
• Country: Armenia
• Face Value: 20,000

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Valcambi CombiBar: Why Preppers LOVE BREAKABLE Silver Bars

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Valcambi CombiBar: Why Preppers Love Breakable Silver Bars

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Money Metals’ precious metals analyst and reporter Mike Maharrey shows why preppers and silver stackers love the Valcambi Silver CombiBar – a 100 x 1 Gram .999 fine silver bar you can actually break apart.

This 100 gram silver bar is fully perforated, so you can snap it into 100 individual 1 gram pieces of real silver. In this video, Mike explains why this breakable silver bar is ideal for barter, emergency preparedness, and fractional silver in a potential financial crisis or meltdown.

You’ll see:

✅ How the Valcambi CombiBar breaks into 1 g silver pieces

✅ Why preppers value

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When Silver Becomes Art: Crucifixion & Lady Liberty in .925 #silver #sterlingsilver #Jesus #liberty

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When Silver Becomes Art: Crucifixion & Lady Liberty in .925

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Most people think silver investing is just about bullion bars and rounds. In this video, we show how sterling silver statues turn your silver stack into display-worthy art—with real precious metals weight behind it.

We’re featuring two stunning Rearden Metals designs available through Money Metals:

1. “The Price He Paid” – Crucifixion of Christ Sterling Silver Statue

Mint Facility: Rearden Metals

Purity: .925 sterling silver (92.5% silver)

Metal Weight: 7 troy ounces

Dimensions: H 4.5" x W 3.5"

Design: Detailed crucifixion scene of Christ on the cross, mounted on a rocky base

2. “Lady

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Valcambi CombiBar: Why Preppers are OBSESSED with Breakable Gold Bars

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Valcambi CombiBar: Why Preppers are OBSESSED with Breakable Gold Bars

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What if your gold bar could literally turn into 100 pieces of spendable money?

In this Money Metals video, precious metals analyst and reporter Mike Maharrey takes a close look at the Valcambi CombiBar – 100 x 1 Gram .9999 Gold (3.215 troy oz). Minted by Valcambi SA in Switzerland, this 100 gram gold bar is pre-scored into one hundred individual 1 gram squares, each stamped and ready to snap apart by hand. Mike even compares a 1 gram piece to a penny so you can see just how small – and practical – this fractional gold really is.

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A Better Way to Understand Inflation

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Inflation isn’t just “rising prices” – it’s your money losing value.

In this short Money Metals video, our precious metals analyst breaks down a better way to think about inflation. Instead of blaming Publix or “greedy corporations” for higher prices, he shows why the real problem is a falling purchasing power of the dollar.

Using a simple gallon-of-milk example, he explains:

✅ Why saying “prices are rising” hides what’s really going on

✅ How expanding the money supply quietly erodes your savings

✅ Why the correct definition of inflation is currency debasement, not just higher prices

✅ How government and central bank policies are the true drivers of long-term cost-of-living increases

If you’re worried

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Fat Gold Stack of Goldbacks Beside A Kilo Gold Bar

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Fat Gold Stack of Goldbacks Beside A Kilo Gold Bar

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Fat stacks of Goldbacks vs. a massive kilo gold bar – which would you rather hold?

In this Money Metals video, filmed inside the Money Metals Depository, we pull out thick $100 stacks of 1/1000 oz Goldbacks and lay them next to a gleaming 1 kilo gold bar to show the difference in gold content, form factor, and premiums.

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Each Goldback contains 1/1000 troy ounce of gold.

That means:

1 Goldback (1 GB) = 1/1000 troy ounce of gold

$100 in Goldbacks = 100 Goldbacks = 0.1 troy ounce of gold

2 x $100 stacks in the video = 200

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Math Wins!

You can spin reality using words, but math is math, and it always wins.

In this episode of the Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey discusses tariffs, rebate checks, and the national debt in light of the math, along with supply and demand math in the silver market.

Along the way, he reveals that the math doesn’t support the political and mainstream rhetoric.

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Geiger Silver Bars Blacklight Test: See the LEV Mark Glow

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Geiger Silver Bars Blacklight Test: See the LEV Mark Glow

Geiger silver bars blacklight test in real time. In this video, Money Metals shines a UV/black light on Geiger silver bars from Geiger Edelmetalle AG, a historic precious metals refinery based near Leipzig, Germany, to reveal the glowing LEV mark on the back of each bar and show one of the simplest ways to confirm authenticity.

Geiger silver bars are produced in Germany by Geiger Edelmetalle AG, headquartered at Schloss Güldengossa just outside the city of Leipzig. The LEV mark stands for Leipziger Edelmetallverarbeitung GmbH, Geiger’s sister company that tests and approves each bar. When that LEV logo lights up under a blacklight, it’s an extra layer

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K Street is Washington DC

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K Street is Washington DC

In this short street-level report, Money Metals’ precious metals analyst and reporter Mike Maharrey takes you to K Street in Washington, DC – the symbolic heart of America’s lobbying machine.

Most people think laws are made only up on Capitol Hill. But as Mike explains, K Street is where the lobbyists work—and where enormous influence over legislation is really exercised.

From corporate interests to powerful industry groups, this is the place where backroom priorities can quietly shape public policy, regulations, and the economic rules we all have to live under.

For gold and silver investors, that matters.

When lobbyists and political insiders help drive policy on money, banking,

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State Flag Silver Bars: 1 oz Souvenirs That Hold Real Value

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🇺🇸 State Flag Silver Bars: 1 oz Souvenirs That Hold Real Value 🇺🇸

Most silver products are aimed at investors… but these are the kind you’ll never forget.

In this Money Metals Exchange video, Mike Maharrey shows off a stunning set of colorized 1 oz state flag silver bars – collectible bullion pieces that work as both real investments and meaningful gifts.

Each bar features a full-color design of a U.S. state flag (all 50 states available), plus a U.S. flag bar, all struck from 1 troy ounce of .999 fine silver (99.9% pure). If you’ve lived in a state, visited it, or call it home, you can commemorate it in pure silver.

Bar Details:

• Metal: .999 Fine Silver (99.9% pure)

• Weight: 1 Troy Ounce

• Dimensions:

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Banks Move Suddenly to DEBANK Americans

Jorge Jraissati, President of the Economic Inclusion Group discuss the troubling subject of de-banking and how individuals and organizations are suddenly having their bank accounts closed in a growing number of instances and without clear explanations as to why. | Do you own precious metals you would rather not sell, but need access to cash? Get Started Here: https://www.moneymetals.com/gold-loan

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There’s $1,000,000 Sitting Under This Christmas Tree (Most People Miss It) #christmastree #luxury

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🎄 There’s $1,000,000 Sitting Under This Christmas Tree (Most People Miss It) 🎄

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Most people see Christmas decorations and Christmas decor. Precious metals fans see over $1,000,000 in real wealth quietly sitting around this tree in the form of kilo gold bars, gold bars, silver bars, silver rounds, silver coins, gold coins, gold rounds, and sterling silver statues.

In this short video from Money Metals Exchange, we walk you through our million-dollar Christmas tree scene loaded with festive bullion, unique coins, and over-the-top gift ideas for stackers and Christmas fanatics alike.

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You’ll spot:

✅ A Valcambi

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Unconstitutional Federal Trade Commission and Government Overreach #federaltradecommission #ftc

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Standing outside the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) building in Washington, D.C. (600 Pennsylvania Avenue, North West) Money Metals’ Mike Maharrey breaks down why so much of what happens inside that agency has no basis in the original Constitution.

In this short on-the-ground video, Mike explains how the word “trade” meant something very different in the Founding era than it does today. When the Constitution granted Congress the power to “regulate commerce,” it referred narrowly to the movement of goods from place to place — not every form of economic life, and certainly not a blank check for federal bureaucrats.

Over time, politicians, judges, and agencies have twisted that limited power into a justification

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Hear the Sound of Silver Money for an Unsound Fake! #silver #silverstacking #soundmoney

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Step into the shoes of a precious metals pro and learn how to hear the difference between real silver and a convincing fake.

In this first-person Money Metals video, you’ll watch and listen as silver rounds and coins are sifted, stacked, and gently struck together to perform the classic “ping test.” Along the way, we uncover an outright counterfeit—using nothing more than sound. You’ll hear the telltale dull clunk of the fake compared to the bright, ringing tone of genuine silver.

What you’ll see and hear in this video:

✔️ How the silver “ping test” works in real time

✔️ The distinct sound of authentic silver vs. counterfeit metal

✔️ Simple, at-home screening tips for your own silver coins and rounds

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Why Is Friday Black?

Have you ever wondered why the Friday after Thanksgiving is called Black Friday?

It’s not the reason most people think. The actual story is much more complicated – and somewhat amusing.

In this episode of the Money Metals’ Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey explains the evolution of the term "Black Friday and teaches some economics along the way.

He also highlights the release of the 2026 Sound Money Index.

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Why Is Friday Black?

Have you ever wondered why the Friday after Thanksgiving is called Black Friday?

It’s not the reason most people think. The actual story is much more complicated – and somewhat amusing.

In this episode of the Money Metals’ Midweek Memo, host Mike Maharrey explains the evolution of the term "Black Friday and teaches some economics along the way.

He also highlights the release of the 2026 Sound Money Index.

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Lustrous Argor Heraeus 1 Kilo Gold Bar – Money Metals Exchange #gold #goldbar #kilo #preciousmetals

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Lustrous Argor Heraeus 1 Kilo Gold Bar Money Metals Exchange

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Experience the sheer weight of real wealth with this stunning Lustrous Argor Heraeus 1 Kilo Gold Bar at Money Metals Exchange. In this video, you’ll get an up-close look at a full 1 kilogram (32.151 troy ounces) of .9999 fine gold — a serious bullion position for investors who want to move beyond small coins and bars into true wealth consolidation.

This bar is produced by Argor-Heraeus, one of the world’s most respected Swiss refiners and an LBMA-accredited manufacturer known for precision, purity, and impeccable craftsmanship. Each 1 kilo gold bar offers:

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What 36,000 Ounces of Silver $1.8 Million Really Looks Like #silverstacking #silver #silverbar

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What 36,000 Ounces of Silver $1.8 Million Really Looks Like

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What does 36,000 troy ounces of silver – roughly 360 one-hundred-ounce bars – really look like on a single pallet?

With silver hovering near $50 an ounce, this stack represents about $1.8 million in physical metal. In this video, we walk right up to a giant pallet of 100 oz silver bars, pick them up, feel the weight, and show the different finishes and textures you’ll see on real investment-grade bullion.

You’ll see:

A full pallet of 100 oz silver bars up close

How heavy a single 100 oz bar really is (yes, you could “work out” with it)

Different bar styles and surface finishes

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Gold Is the New 20

This week don’t miss our exclusive interview with Jordan Roy-Byrne, a chartered market technician and master of financial technical analysis, editor and publisher of The Daily Gold, and the author of the book Gold and Silver: The Greatest Bull Market Has Begun.

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