Chris Duane
Silver Shield
Signs of the Times
New Releases
New MiniMintage silver proof rounds publicly available each week, for 7 days only
Members Only
Members get exclusive access to our weekly members-only MicroMintage rounds
BU Collection
Limited quantities of our unique Brilliant Uncirculated silver rounds are in stock now
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new WEEKLY Proof RELEASES
See this week’s releases. Chris Duane releases one MiniMintage and one MicroMintage proof round each week.
One to the public and one exclusively to his membership-only Silver Shield Group. While typically in 1 Troy Ounce weight, the pieces are occasionally issued in 2 oz or 5 oz coins or in 10 oz bars.
The Death of the Dollar Series continues with I am the House
When Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stood before students at Southern Methodist University and declared, “I am the house now… I have asymmetric information… you can bet against me if you want,” he was not speaking as a cautious steward of public credit but as a former hedge-fund trader who had just switched sides of the table. Thirty-four years after helping George Soros break the Bank of England, Bessent now sat in the dealer’s chair, daring currency markets over the yen and bond traders over rising Treasury yields while oil punched through $100 on the Iran conflict and the 10-year yield climbed toward 5 percent. The phrase landed like a gauntlet thrown onto a casino floor already filling with smoke: global markets were on fire, yet the man running America’s books insisted the house still held the edge. Within days the bond market called his bluff, yields punched higher despite announced buybacks, and commentators circulated images of a burning house on a crumbling cliff—the same grim tableau struck on the Silver Shield round titled I Am the House. The irony was complete. The official who claimed the structural advantage of “the house” found the foundations themselves catching fire, a reminder that even the house can burn when the entire casino is ablaze.
AVAILABLE TO GENERAL PUBLIC NOW
1 oz Silver Sculpted Proof MiniMintage Round
The Death of the Dollar Series continues with Kamikaze Bonds
The Silver Shield Kamikaze Bonds round is a funeral medal for the age of free money. A skull in a cracked flight helmet stares out from the rising sun, flanked by Zero fighters and crossed katanas, while plaques announce the unthinkable: Japan’s 10-year yield at 3.01 percent and its 30-year at 4.18 percent—levels last seen before the Lost Decades. Beneath them the yen plunges on a downward arrow, stamped with the characters for kamikaze, the divine wind that once meant suicide for the empire. For thirty years the world borrowed yen at near zero and levered the proceeds into everything from Treasuries to tech stocks; Japan’s insurers and pensions, starved of yield at home, became the silent buyers of last resort for American debt. That carry trade is now flying into the mountain. As JGBs finally pay a real return, Japanese capital has a reason to come home, the cheapest funding source on earth is disappearing, and a $1-trillion-plus Treasury position plus trillions more in yen-funded bets must be unwound. In a global economy built on leverage, one nation’s bond market has become the pilot who does not plan to land.
FOR “SILVER SHIELD GROUP” MEMBERS ONLY
1 oz Silver Sculpted Proof MicroMintage Round
silver collector’s blog
Chris Duane releases a regular Silver blog on Sundays.
Why silver?
Stacking physical silver is a prudent and time-tested strategy for preserving and growing wealth.
“The financial system is a global, generational, debt-based, fiat Ponzi scheme. It is manifesting in the Everything Bubble that will pop when the silver pin of truth bursts the bubble. It is unsustainable, and when the bubble bursts, physical silver will be the only currency left standing.”
In an era of unprecedented fiscal and monetary global policies, physical silver offers a tangible, inflation-resistant asset that transcends market fluctuations and geopolitical uncertainties. Owning physical silver in the form of coins and bars provides a sense of security and autonomy, allowing individuals a hedge against currency devaluation and economic instability. Furthermore, the intrinsic industrial demand for silver in various sectors, coupled with its historical role as a store of value, reinforces its appeal as a crucial investment.
In addition to its monetary value, physical silver has over 10,000 industrial uses and is known to be antimicrobial, anti-cancer, anti-viral, and antibiotic. As a reliable and enduring asset, physical silver holds the potential to safeguard purchasing power and endure as a hedge against systemic risks, making it an indispensable element of a comprehensive wealth preservation approach.
MiniMintage by Silver Shield
The Silver Shield MiniMintage strategy seeks to combine undervalued silver with meaningful designs, limited mintage, and certificates of authenticity in a growing series with direct-to-consumer prices. The aim is to create an option for buyers that will provide fantastic value.
The Silver Shield MiniMintages differ in that there is only a limited amount of these originally designed rounds that are created. Low production numbers, coupled with the COAs for silver, all lead to an increased value for the product.
In addition, Silver Shield releases an exclusive members-only MicroMintage in even smaller quantities. Learn More
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