ALASKA PREPPER/NUTRIENT SURVIVAL

As you read in the April issue, Rudy, the AlaskaPrepper, gifted me one ounce of silver. So, in return,I gifted him ten 1/10 oz. silver Alaska Prepper tokens. I created a monster! He liked them so much heordered 100. And then 100 more.

Rudy asked if I could make a 1 oz. silver token. I didthis for him. It is not my best work. Only 7 wereminted.

Being the devious soul that I am, I thought I wouldyank Rudy's chain again. I had made a 1 DWT AlaskaGold die with a moose for future use. I had somespare 1 DWT gold blanks just lying around... So Ipaired this die with the Alaska Prepper snow flakedie and made a gold token. The next time he came inthe store, I casually tossed it on the counter. Cast theline, set the hook! I didn't expect to sell him many,but I did expect to sell the piece I tossed on thecounter. Only 2 of these were pressed - one for himand one for me.

Rudy's YouTube channel has become very successful. He has over 100,000 subscribers. Being a he is always looking at long term storagefoods. He has become affiliated with Nutrient Survival. Unlike most long term storage foods that arepretty much empty calories - and don't get me wrong,calories are king when you need food - Nutrient Survival foods are nutrient dense.

So Rudy convinced Nutrient survival that they neededto make up a special It included six #10 cans of their most popular products.A special discount was extended through Rudy. Plus,he convinced them that they needed to throw in a 1/10 oz. silver Alaska Prepper token with a special reverse. This special was limited to 100 special , and each contained a 1/10 oz. silver token.

Rudy continues to work with Nutrient Survival. Heliked the moose die so much, he had me make anAlaska Prepper die with the moose to replace thesnowflake. And this die was used on the next Nutrient Survival Alaska Prepper offer.

In this special offer, Nutrient Survival was givingaway 1 DWT Alaska gold tokens randomly to threeof the first 100 purchasers.

In addition, Rudy ordered 100 of the AP Moose andNS 1/10 oz. silver tokens. This time, he will be sending them directly to the purchasers of the NS AP pack.But there was a problem. The first 100 special NPAP packs sold out in 2 hours. Rudy asked if I couldmake another 100, and have another 100 blanks inreserve.

On the first NS 1/10 oz., I noticed that the 1/10 was abit weak. I decided to repunch the 1/10 and strengthenit. Only two were made with the 1/10 die.As I was melting and pouring silver on the Sunday ofLabor Day weekend, Rudy called and said, He picked up the first 200 Tuesday after Labor day.

While the special NS AP special offer was supposedto be only 100 units, Rudy convinced them that theyneeded to extend it through the month of September.As the promotion has now ended, I made 354 tokensfor Rudy.

And the good news is that the dies seem to be holding up well. The silver is thick (about 1.85mm) so itabsorbs the pressing well without doing too muchdie deformation. I just have to flatten the ends occasionally (50-100 pressings).

Now I just have to get the Toyo stove hooked up inthe workshop so I can keep doing this in the winter.

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