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Business Upturn
01-05-2025
- Business
- Business Upturn
2025 American Buffalo One Ounce Gold Proof Coin on Sale May 8
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The United States Mint (Mint) will begin accepting orders for the 2025 American Buffalo One Ounce Gold Proof Coin on May 8 at noon EDT. The Mint launched the American Buffalo Coin Program in 2006. This 24-karat gold coin is the collector version of the official United States Mint American Buffalo One Ounce Gold Bullion Coin. Designs depicted on this coin are based on the 1913 Type I Buffalo nickel by sculptor James Earle Fraser. The obverse (heads) portrays a profile representation of a Native American with the inscriptions 'LIBERTY' and '2025.' The reverse (tails) features an American Buffalo and the inscriptions 'UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,' 'E PLURIBUS UNUM,' 'IN GOD WE TRUST,' '$50,' '1 OZ.,' and '.9999 FINE GOLD.' Complementing its handsome design, each coin is encapsulated and placed in a stylish clamshell and classic black presentation case with the United States Mint seal on the lid. The case fits into an outer sleeve with a beautiful gold foil image of the American Buffalo. It also includes a certificate of authenticity with matching imagery. The 2025 American Buffalo One Ounce Gold Proof Coin is priced according to the range in which it appears on the Mint's Pricing of Numismatic Gold, Commemorative Gold, Platinum, and Palladium Products table. Current pricing information is available here. To set up a REMIND ME alert for this coin, please visit: (product code 25EL). Additional precious metal products may be found here. Please visit as your primary source of the most current information on product and service status or call 1-800-USA-MINT (872-6468) seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. ET. Hearing and speech impaired customers with TTY equipment may order by calling 1-888-321-MINT (6468) Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET. From outside the United States, customers can call 001-202-898-6468 Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET. About the United States Mint Congress created the United States Mint in 1792, and the Mint became part of the Department of the Treasury in 1873. As the Nation's sole manufacturer of legal tender coinage, the Mint is responsible for producing circulating coinage for the Nation to conduct its trade and commerce. The Mint also produces numismatic products, including proof, uncirculated, and commemorative coins; Congressional Gold Medals; silver and bronze medals; and silver and gold bullion coins. Its numismatic programs are self-sustaining and operate at no cost to taxpayers. Note: To ensure that all members of the public have fair and equal access to United States Mint products, the United States Mint will not accept and will not honor orders placed prior to the official on-sale date of May 8, 2025, at noon EDT. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Disclaimer: The above press release comes to you under an arrangement with GlobeNewswire. Business Upturn takes no editorial responsibility for the same.
Chicago Tribune
14-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Review: Mamet's ‘Henry Johnson' sorts through the cards we're dealt in life
A defining theme of the plays of David Mamet, from 'American Buffalo' to 'Edmund' to 'Race,' is an individual's search for a moral center in a wholly transactional world. 'Henry Johnson,' his fascinating 2023 work now in its Chicago premiere at the reopened Biograph Theatre from the gutsy director Eddie Torres, makes that quest as raw and explicit as anything he's previously written. Watching this 85-minute drama, the very production of which by the long-dormant Victory Gardens Theater (in collaboration with the new Relentless Theatre Group) was enough to cause protests on the first night of previews, my mind kept going to what makes Mamet such an outlier now in the American theater. Some would argue that the theater is no place for an outspokenly conservative writer of political essays, but liberal-thinking persons have to dismiss that argument, if only on the grounds that there should at least be room for one. Others focus more on the content of his plays, angry at what they have to say. But what is that, actually? You can find a clue in the second scene of 'Henry Johnson,' wherein one veteran prisoner, Gene (played by Thomas Gibson) talks to the titular character (played by Daniil Krimer), now also an incarcerated man in a shared cell. 'Life everywhere is a jungle,' he says. 'Difference is, out there, there are those too ignorant to know it.' In other words, as in 'Edmund,' the title character here, a likable man who gets entrapped by the legal system, is on a fool's errand as his belief that the world can be something other than transactional is progressively shattered in four scenes. In the end, the veteran criminal turns out to be right: 'Some get rich, some get caught, and sent away to dissuade the others from figuring it out. You want someone to 'explain it to you?' Here's the wisdom: everything is what it seems. All the cards are in the deck. It just depends on where you cut 'em.' Or, a bit later in the play, a conversation between Henry Johnson and the prison guard Jerry (Keith Kupferer) puts it slightly differently. 'What should I do?,' Johnson asks. 'Do what you want,' Jerry replies. 'People generally do.' 'Henry Johnson' was first seen in Los Angeles in 2023 and also is about to be released as a film with Shia LaBeouf. The movie is advertised in the lobby for the current Broadway revival of Mamet's 'Glengarry Glen Ross,' an uneasy production when it comes to the application of the themes above, all of which are applicable to that play, too. This seat-of-its-pants Chicago production was, on the early night I was there, afflicted with some severe production management problems when it came to light and sound cues and the like. Gibson, in particular, was far from fully ready. But the skilled Kupferer was already excellent, as was Al'Jaleel McGhee, who we see as Henry's boss in the first scene. And Krimer's central performance is strikingly moving, which is never easy in a Mamet play and especially not in this one. The guy takes what could be an ice-cold show and gives it some heart. I think the difference between me and Mamet's many detractors now is not so much disagreement over the theme. Indeed, it is Mamet's apparent amorality and dogged refusal to ascribe moral worth to anyone that so infuriates people invested in the foundational idea of theater making the world better — a laudable goal — rather than exposing human narcissism and well-cloaked hypocrisy. It's more that I see Mamet's seeming cynicism, if that's the word, as part not just of a search for meaning, but actually for love. Anyone who recalls 'The Cryptogram' at Steppenwolf should know what I mean. I don't want to imply the man is being disingenuous when he makes public utterances, just that they should not always be taken on their face. Suffice to say that if the man's writing all these years interests you, 'Henry Johnson' is well worth seeing and there likely will be tickets at the door. Otherwise, you surely already know to stay away. Chris Jones is a Tribune critic. cjones5@ When: Through May 4 Where: Victory Gardens Biograph, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave. Running time: 1 hour, 25 minutes
