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Reflections on Manatee Coin Club’s 60 Years

The Cuban Missile Crisis couldn’t do it, nor could the 1960s racial riots. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, the War on Terror, Watergate, Whitewater, Iran/ Contra and Russian voter interference made no difference. The Great Recession of 2008, and bullion highs and lows could not shut it down. An unseen foe, however, a virus of all things, forced the Manatee Coin Club of Bradenton, Fla., into a prolonged hiatus after 60 years of

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