The U.S. Mint said the President Donald J. Trump $1 coin can be bought in packages of 25 for $61 or 100 coins for $154.50.
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New $1 Trump coin sells out in hours, goes for $2.44 apiece in bulk.
As it ran on the front
The U.S. Mint put a dollar coin bearing President Trump's face on sale Wednesday at noon, advertised as an opportunity to "own a piece of American history." By Wednesday afternoon, the Mint's own website listed it sold out. The listing did not specify whether the shortage reflected demand for the history or simply a limited print run; it just marked the item gone.
The price of that piece of history: a roll of twenty-five coins costs sixty-one dollars at the Mint, which works out to two dollars and forty-four cents a coin — a coin whose face value, stamped on the coin itself, is one dollar. Move up to the hundred-coin box and the arithmetic changes: one hundred fifty-four dollars and fifty cents comes out to about a dollar fifty-four and a half a coin, a real volume discount, the kind retailers offer for buying more of something whose face value does not change no matter how many you buy. Trump is the first living president to appear on a circulating U.S. coin in a hundred years; the last one did not require a bulk-pricing tier.…
…(cont) Six days before the coin sold out, on August 27, the watchdog group Public Citizen filed a different accounting of a different Trump product, dated as precisely as the Mint prices its rolls. Its finding: Trump's cryptocurrency ventures have left investors on the hook for at least four billion seven hundred million dollars, the bulk of it traced to a personal meme coin the president launched three days before his second term began.
Between the two filings sits a pattern in the pricing, not the politics. A coin backed by the United States Treasury sold out in an afternoon and now runs above its printed value in bulk. A coin backed by nothing the Mint stamps a number on has cost the people who bought it, by the watchdog's count, nearly five billion dollars. One tally comes from the government that issued the product. The other comes from an outside watchdog, six days apart, both filed on coins bearing the same face, hon.
“They put his face on a dollar coin, then sell it for two-forty-four in bulk, like it's a limited-edition action figure. Same week, a watchdog says his personal crypto coin cost regular folks nearly five billion dollars. One markup you see coming from the packaging; the other you find out about after your money's already gone.”
“A dollar coin selling for two-forty-four isn't a markup, it's a collector's premium — people pay more for limited editions all the time, that's just capitalism, I think? And the crypto number, that's Public Citizen's estimate, not an audit, that's activists throwing around a figure to get quoted — did I just call four billion seven hundred million dollars "a figure"? That's not — that's not what I meant.”
The receipts
A report released Thursday by government watchdog Public Citizen estimates that President Donald Trump's assorted cryptocurrency products have left investors on the hook for billions of dollars in losses. In total, Public Citizen found…
One dollar gold-colored coins featuring President Trump’s image sold out hours after they were released on Wednesday afternoon, according to the U.S. Mint’s website. The currency, which the Trump administration advertised as an opportunity to “own a piece of American History,”
Trump is the first living president to be on a circulating coin in 100 years.
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