michael gilberg

Ever since I was a small kid, I collected baseball cards, my earliest recollection was going to the corner grocery store with my mom and her buying me a pack of 1976 Topps baseball cards. I collected baseball cards through my early days of college, even finishing a 1963 Topps set with all the errors, variations and corrections. This hobby however stalled with raising a family and ultimately being a single dad with two daughters.

With my children a bit older and being engaged to the love of my life, I started to worry about the state of the economy and my silver journey started innocently as just looking to stack silver as a survival mechanism should the economy by destroyed. This journey started about 5 years ago and my generic and junk silver quickly turned into a love for the art that was depicted in many of these silver pieces. With this interest sparked, I was able to complete and entire MS set of Early Silver Commemorative Half Dollars (146 coins in all).

My passion allowed me to start a Facebook Group entitled “Commemorative Coin Club – Sales & Insight Community” which currently has 1.4K members. The Commemorative Half Dollars also started my love for silver art bars and rounds. My collecting started out around pieces with Buffalos, Native Americans and Baseball, and now encompasses many items I just find to be beautiful.

In the Numismatic Community, I am a member of IASAC and the ANA and I am also a Collector Member of CAC.

• Licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the State of New York. License Current