DWIGHT MANLEY

GREATEST COIN COLLECTOR IN THE WORLD

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Dwight Manley is the greatest coin collector in the world, widely admired for his talents and achievements. He develops real estate in California but also builds bridges for the coin hobby. Manley is a philanthropist, dealmaker extraordinaire, visionary and former big-time sports agent who once represented Karl Malone and Dennis Rodman, among others. His agency's former clients are rivaled only by the megastar coin rarities he handled as a dealer.

Manley is the recipient of the 2024 Chester L. Krause Memorial Distinguished Service Award from the American Numismatic Association (ANA) the Congressionally chartered nonprofit organization's highest honor. He donated more than $3 million in funds and material to establish and sustain the ANA's Florence Schook School of Numismatics. Schook was his childhood numismatic coach who encouraged him at the 1981 ANA Summer Seminar, to which he was awarded a scholarship.

The celebrated Manley has a claim to being called a Renaissance Man (which he is), as actress Penny Marshall, a former client, starred in a major motion picture of that name. By the way, Manley is also a television producer.

If you could be the U.S. Mint director for a day, what would you do?

On that day, among other important issues, I'd eliminate the U.S. cent. I'd also bring back the $5,000 and $10,000 bills and create the first physical U.S. currency and cryptocurrency hybrid. I'd merge cryptocurrency with our circulating coinage and currency. The seigniorage pays down debt. At some point, the value of the crypto could exceed the face value of the note.