Issue 32 · week ending November 5, 2026
November 5, 2026
Gold kept its post-election rally going into Thursday even as the Bank of England raised rates, while CoinWeek retold the story of the 1982-D Small Date cent struck on a leftover bronze blank and the Mint's new Proof Set climbed back to the top of the weekly sales chart.
Gold held most of its gains Thursday morning after the Bank of England raised its Bank Rate a quarter point to 4% and said it expects UK inflation to rise to around 5% by the middle of next year.
Kitco News printed spot gold $4,128.54 an ounce, up 1.74% on the day; £3,065.90, up 1.70% (2026-11-05).
Gold and silver closed Wednesday sharply higher as the midterm results pushed the dollar, Treasury yields and crude oil lower, with silver outpacing gold.
Kitco NewsWire printed late-session spot gold near $4,065.90 (+$136.50, +3.47%), spot silver near $52.280 (+$2.608, +5.25%) (2026-11-04).
Peter Boockvar of OnePoint BFG Wealth Partners told Kitco that gold's October drop below $4,000 looked like a forced seller, not a broken thesis, and that it has been trading too much like an AI stock.
Kitco News printed central banks bought a net 321 tonnes in Q3, per the World Gold Council as cited by Kitco (2026-11-04).
Only two 1982-D Small Date Lincoln cents struck on the old bronze planchet are known, and the first one, found by a Minnesota collector in a $50 bank bag, brought $18,800 at Stack's Bowers in 2017.
CoinWeek printed $18,800 (Stack's Bowers, August 2017), $10,800 (Heritage, April 2019), $8,400 (Heritage, September 2019); CoinWeek says these prices include the buyer's premium; both coins NGC AU-58 BN (2026-11-04).
The Mint's 2026 Semiquincentennial Proof Set returned to the top of the weekly sales chart, and the 2026-W Proof Silver Eagle passed 453,000.
CoinNews.net printed Proof Set +4,851 to 371,677 (77.4% of its 480,000 limit); 2026-W Proof Silver Eagle +1,254 to 453,011; Innovation Dollar Reverse Proof Set down 2,506 to 48,572, for the period ending Nov. 1 (2026-11-04).
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