One of the rarest coins around will sell at the end of September for an expected price of $3 to $5 million. The 1794 Silver Dollar up for auction is one of just 150 such coins known to exist, and is thought to be one of the best preserved. Also known as the Flowing Hair…
Silver: Prolonging the Shelf Life of Milk
It’s no secret that silver has serious value in terms of its industrial potential. Silver is used in a variety of industries, including solar, tech, and healthcare. Well, one of silver’s newest uses is apparently prolonging the shelf life of milk. A Brazilian company called Agrindus, which focuses on agribusiness, wanted to find a way…
Apples of Hesperides Mintage Released – Hercules
After completing his required 10 labors, Hercules was assigned two additional labors by King Eurystheus. The first was to retrieve the golden apples from the garden of Hesperides, which Eurystheus thought to be unachievable. Hercules successfully achieved the labor, and hopefully you did as well in an effort to complete your 12 Labors of Hercules series….
A Coin Can Make a Difference: Grateful American Coins
At Provident Metals, we pride ourselves on offering a fine selection of commemorative U.S. coins. These coins are minted with the intention of honoring America’s greatest moments, places and heroes. However, we recently heard of another touching way to honor modern American heroes with a coin. The Grateful American coin nonprofit is a homegrown organization…
Copper Designated as the State Metal of Arizona
Despite the nearly unquenchable appetite for industrial metals like copper and the PGMs from China developing economies in the East over the last few years, metal prices have really taken a hit this year. Demand is starting to slow down, causing spot prices to finally cool off a bit. As one economist put it, now…
ATB Coin Series Celebrates Blue Ridge Parkway
The newest addition to the America the Beautiful (ATB) coin series is North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Parkway, a winding road connecting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina to the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. The Blue Ridge Parkway silver coin is the 28th installment of the ATB collection, which has a mintage…
