April 2025 – Week 4 Edition
Mike’s Rare Coin of the Week – 1893-P $20 Liberty MS63
My last two selections for the rare coin of the week, the 1908 $2 ½ MS65 and the 1910 $5 MS64, sold out within a few days of our emails. In fact, we even had to raise our bids on dealer-to-dealer coin exchanges for both coins to get a few more.
This week, I want to shine a light on a very special Gold Double Eagle, the MS63 1893 Philadelphia Mint $20 Liberty, which contains .9675 ounces of pure gold.
This popular gold coin was selected by me six years ago to be included in our revolutionary and profitable 20/20 Program. Since that time, it has increased in price by 118%. I expect its value to continue increasing into the future due to its relatively low mintage and population of PCGS and NGC certified coins, combined with increased collector demand. Even the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, an exhibit I helped sponsor, lacks a business strike example, like the one I am offering here, in their extensive collection.
Don’t hesitate; the relatively few examples set aside for this special offer may be sold out, as the previous two coins I recommended have done.
Gold Soars Over $3,400 While the Dow Dips by Another 1,000 Points
On April 21, the Monday after Easter, gold soared by over $100 to $3,430 while the Dow fell by 1,300 points at its low point. It then rallied slightly before closing down 972 points in a continuation of the same powerful trend for 2025, magnified during April, of gold rising and most stocks falling.
As our price tables at the end of this report show, gold is up 30% so far this year, while both major stock indexes are down by double digits. This is also true of the 25-year trend of gold up 1,080% vs. 251% for the S&P 500 and 232% for the Dow. The same wide division is true since COVID-19 hit in 2020 and since the Russia/Ukraine war began in 2022, with gold up 87% vs. 8% for the S&P 500 and 5% for the Dow. Silver is in the middle, usually doubling any stock market gains.
Gold first pierced the $3,000 barrier on March 17th, so gold has only been above $3,000 for five weeks, yet gold is now approaching our maximum high forecast of $3,500 for the full year.
Longer-term, the price of gold in April 2015, a decade ago, was only $1,200, so gold has almost tripled in a decade. Adjusted for inflation, that $1,200 price is equal to $1,620 in today’s dollars, so gold has more than doubled in “real” dollars (after inflation) over the past 10 years. What’s most amazing is that gold has almost doubled since we met to collaborate with Steve Forbes in October of 2023, when gold was under $1,900 per ounce, and we predicted it would reach $2,500 in 2024.
It turns out Forbes was unnecessarily cautious and my bold predictions came true, as gold reached $2,740 by October 2024.
We’re Headed for the NRA Convention in Atlanta This Week
The 154th annual National Rifle Association (NRA) meeting will be held in Atlanta this week, April 24-27, with Forest Hamilton and I speaking on a Freedom First Financial Panel Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Also, on Sunday, we are again sponsoring the NRA Prayer Breakfast from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. and welcome you to visit with us there or at Booth #3855 in the main hall. We hope to see many of you there as we celebrate America and the right to bear arms.
This week began with “Patriots’ Day” in Boston, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the “Shot Heard ‘Round the World” in Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. It was an earth-shattering event that didn’t get enough press coverage over the weekend – since it was really the birth of America – perhaps just as much as July 4, 1776, when 56 brave men collected signatures on paper for their Declaration of Independence the following year. The Minutemen of Massachusetts put their lives on the line to defend their right to bear arms during a British “gun control” siege.
This British gun seizure attempt was planned the day before the battle, when British General Thomas Gage issued an order to march against the patriot arsenal at Concord and to capture John Adams and John Hancock. The two men were thought to be hiding in Lexington but Paul Revere and William Dawes rode on horseback through the night alerting the Minutemen to defend their arms before the British Attempt to Take Firearms (BATF) could surprise the Patriots and confiscate their arsenal at Concord.
Nobody knows who fired the first shot but at the end of that April 19th battle, the British suffered 73 killed and 200 wounded vs. 49 dead and 46 wounded for the colonists. Paul Revere’s horse was also commandeered, so he had to walk home, creating the first “Boston Marathon,” which is still run 250 years later, on or near Patriot’s Day. I’m happy to report that three American men and two American women finished in the Top 10 of this Monday’s Boston Marathon (that seldom happens) and an American woman, Susannah Scaroni, won their wheelchair division.
In conjunction with the 250th anniversary of Patriots’ Day, the Trump Department of Justice announced this past week the creation of a Second Amendment Task Force, which will help bolster the NRA’s ongoing efforts to protect and promote Second Amendment rights nationwide.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has pledged the “full might” of the U.S. Department of Justice behind this effort, sending a letter to all DOJ employees stating the Biden-Harris administration “placed an undue burden on gun owners and vendors by targeting law-abiding citizens exercising their 2nd Amendment rights.” In his first 100 days, President Donald Trump has already taken several actions to restore gun rights to Americans, according to this April 12th press release from the NRA: (CLICK BELOW)
7 Things the Trump Administration Has Done for Our Second Amendment Freedom
Precious metals are up over 16% in two weeks. The May 2025 silver contract on COMEX has recovered from a low of $28.31 on Monday, April 7th to an opening high of $33.10 on Monday, April 21 (+16.9%), while the June 2025 Gold contract rose from $2,950 to $3,442 in the same two weeks, up 16.3%. During the same time period, stocks are up 4.3% (Dow) and 6.7% (S&P 500).
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