Two crossed pickaxes centered in the field, with the legend d'Anconia Copper struck in an arc along the lower rim — the house mark of D'Anconia Copper LLC.
A toothed gear encircling a central dollar sign, with FIFTY repeated six times around the inner ring. Struck legend reads 999 FINE SILVER · ONE TROY OZ above and BLOCKCHAINMINT.COM · AOCS APPROVED 2021 below.
Manufacturer/Mint attributed to Blockchain Mint via struck legend, Issuer attributed to D'Anconia Copper LL. Distributor attributed to Patriot Coins via original blister card packaging. Rearden Metals Pte Ltd (Singapore) appears on packaging without a confirmed role and is not assigned to an ACF field. Obverse/reverse designation follows dealer/packaging convention rather than this site's usual dated-side default. Edge carries an incuse "080" not documented in any surveyed dealer listing — open research thread.
This 2021 D'Anconia Copper Blockchain Mint round has very limited documented sales history to date.
| Date | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 2026 | 100.00 | Most RecentHighest Ever |
| Dec 15, 2025 | 75.99 |
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2021 D’Anconia Copper – Antiqued Silver Round Overview
The 2021 D’Anconia Copper Antiqued Silver Round pairs two Texas brand identities on a single 1 oz .999 fine silver piece, finished with a deliberately aged, matte-toned patina that sets it apart from the “New”/brilliant-finish version of the same die pairing. The obverse carries two crossed pickaxes with the legend d’Anconia Copper struck along the lower rim — the house mark of D’Anconia Copper LLC, registered with the Texas Comptroller in Frisco, TX. The brand takes its name from Francisco d’Anconia, the copper-mining industrialist of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged — a reference the round’s original blistercard packaging leans into with a lengthy quotation from the novel.
The reverse carries a toothed gear centered on a large dollar sign, with the word FIFTY repeated six times around the inner ring, and the struck legend 999 FINE SILVER · ONE TROY OZ above and BLOCKCHAINMINT.COM · AOCS APPROVED 2021 below. That legend ties the reverse die to Blockchain Mint (McKinney, TX), the retail-facing brand run by Robert J. “Bobby” Gray. The struck AOCS APPROVED 2021 mark also places this round in the American Open Currency Standard collection.
The example examined for this entry came sealed on a Patriot Coins-branded blistercard, headlined “A Celebration of Values in Silver” and opening with the same Francisco d’Anconia quotation. Patriot Coins — owned and operated by Rob Gray — describes itself on the card as headquartered in Texas, closing with a “Made in the Texas Republic” tagline. The card also carries a Rearden Metals Pte Ltd logo, a “Made in USA / Family Owned and Operated” seal, and a BEVIS blockchain verification QR code used to authenticate tube lots.
2021 D’Anconia Copper – Antiqued Silver Round Attribution
This round carries no dating ambiguity — the year is struck directly into the reverse legend as part of AOCS APPROVED 2021 — so no attributed-year reasoning is required here.
- Manufacturer/Mint: Blockchain Mint, per the struck BLOCKCHAINMINT.COM legend on the reverse. Production traced to two documented 2021 partners: Rearden Metals Pte Ltd (Singapore) and Patriot Coins (Frisco, TX) — see the Blockchain Mint (McKinney, TX) mint page for the full manufacturing history.
- Issuer: D’Anconia Copper LLC (Frisco, TX), per the struck obverse legend and Texas Comptroller registration. By 2022–2023, d’Anconia Copper had become Patriot Coins’ operating brand for its copper product line generally, appearing on multiple unrelated designs manufactured at Patriot Coins’ Dallas facility — see the Blockchain Mint mint page for this broader pattern.
- Distributor: Patriot Coins (Frisco, TX), per the blistercard packaging the documented example arrived in.
Patriot Coins’ own packaging claims to “manufacture” this round in Texas, but that claim shares the card with a Rearden Metals Pte Ltd (Singapore) logo — see the Blockchain Mint mint page for the fuller manufacturing picture.
The struck “AOCS APPROVED” legend on this round reuses Rob Gray’s original American Open Currency Standard branding rather than indicating continuity with AOCS Mint’s documented 2009–2014 production program — see the AOCS Mint (Frisco, TX) mint page for that program’s separate manufacturing history.
The obverse/reverse designation here follows the pickaxe/d’Anconia Copper side as the obverse, matching dealer listings and the round’s own packaging.
The documented example measures 38.90mm in diameter and 3.00mm in thickness — a minor variance from Provident Metals’ listed 39mm diameter spec, likely within normal manufacturing tolerance for a private bullion round rather than indicating a separate variety.
2021 D’Anconia Copper – Antiqued Silver Round Notes
- An incuse “080” is stamped into the coin’s edge, with no accompanying characters, fractions, or batch prefix. No dealer listing surveyed (Provident Metals, JM Bullion, Silver.com) documents any edge numbering for this product, which is otherwise described uniformly as unnumbered bulk bullion. Significance and scope (individual-coin serialization vs. a sub-batch marking) undetermined — open research thread.
- Obverse/reverse designation follows dealer and packaging convention rather than this site’s usual dated-side default; see Attribution above.
- Rearden Metals Pte Ltd (Singapore) appears on the round’s packaging without a clearly stated role and is not assigned to any ACF field for this entry; see Attribution above.
- D’Anconia Copper’s Atlas Shrugged branding echoes an earlier Gray-affiliated Rand reference: the 2009 John Galt AOCS Approved Silver Round, documented on the AOCS Mint (Frisco, TX) page.
- This entry corroborates, with a specific physical example, the Patriot Coins/Blockchain Mint relationship documented on the Blockchain Mint (McKinney, TX) mint page.
2021 D’Anconia Copper – Antiqued Silver Round References
- Provident Metals — 1 oz Antique Silver Round, D’Anconia
- agroundworld.com — Patriot Coins Synopsis
- Internet Archive Wayback Machine capture of blockchainmint.com, November 2021
- Internet Archive Wayback Machine capture of patriotcoins.com (Instagram feed embed, production posts dated April–September 2021)
- Texas Comptroller registration record, D’Anconia Copper LLC (Frisco, TX)
- Blockchain Mint (McKinney, TX) — Texas Stacker mint page
- American Open Currency Standard (AOCS) — Texas Stacker collection page
- Documented example examined (this entry)
- Texas Stacker Archives
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