Blanchard and Company

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Blanchard and Company, Inc.
Company type Private company
Industry Precious metals
Founded1975;49 years ago (1975)
Founders James "Jim" U. Blanchard III
Headquarters
New Orleans, Louisiana
,
United States
Key people
Donald W. Doyle, Jr. (Chairman), David Beahm (President & CEO)
Products Gold coins and gold bars
Silver coins and silver bars
Website www.blanchardgold.com

Blanchard and Company is an American investment firm specializing in rare coins and precious metals, including gold bars, silver coins and bars, platinum, and palladium. [1]

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History

Blanchard was founded in 1975 by James "Jim" U. Blanchard III, one year after President Gerald Ford legalized ownership of gold by private citizens. Americans had not been able to privately own gold since 1933, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102.

President Ford, who did not realize private ownership of gold was a felony, was motivated to legalize gold after seeing a television commercial of Blanchard in his wheelchair, holding a bar of gold and asking, “Why can I not own this?”. [2] Blanchard had also hired an airplane to fly over President Nixon's second inauguration with a banner reading “Legalize Gold.” [3]

After legalization, Jim Blanchard was a prominent figure in America's gold industry, [4] [5] founding an influential [6] newsletter called Gold News, publishing a memoir called Confessions of a Gold Bug, and founding one of the investment industry's longest-running conferences, [7] which has included speakers such as Margaret Thatcher, Milton Friedman, F.A. Hayek, Ayn Rand, and Ed Crane. [8] Blanchard also served on the Cato Institute’s Board of Directors. [8]

In 1987, Allegiance Capital Partners and GE Capital Corp. purchased Blanchard and Company, Inc. [9] At the time, Blanchard and Company, Inc.’s annual sales totaled $115 million. [9] Donald W. Doyle, Jr. purchased Blanchard and Company, Inc. on October 5, 1991.

In 1999, Blanchard partnered with John Albanese, founder of Certified Acceptance Corporation and the Numismatic Consumer Alliance, Inc., which exposes fraud and aids victims of numismatic fraud. [10] Albanese selects Blanchard and Company, Inc.’s inventory.

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  2. ↑ "Huffington Post: When Owning Gold Was Illegal in America: And Why It Could Be Again". HuffPost . 28 June 2016. Retrieved February 8, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Panama Post: The Heroic Gold Bug You Never Heard Of". Archived from the original on April 4, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2017.
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  8. 1 2 "Cato Institute" . Retrieved February 8, 2017.
  9. 1 2 "Coin Connoisseur: Tribute to a Gold Pioneer". Archived from the original on May 31, 2006. Retrieved February 8, 2017.
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  11. ↑ "Coin Facts: 1907 Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle - Ultra-high Relief" . Retrieved February 8, 2017.
  12. 1 2 "CBS News: "Holy grail" of gold coins sells for $7.4M". CBS News . 12 December 2011. Retrieved February 8, 2017.
  13. ↑ "The Times Picayune: Rare 1787 gold coin fetches $7.4 million in deal brokered by New Orleans firm" . Retrieved February 8, 2017.
  14. ↑ "Coin Facts: 1787 Brasher "Doubloon"" . Retrieved February 8, 2017.
  15. ↑ "Coin Week: $1 Million in Recently Recovered 1715 Fleet Shipwreck Coins Coming to Market" . Retrieved February 8, 2017.
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