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(Kitco News) -
Donald Trump has released the second series of his non-fungible token (NFT) trading card collection ahead of the expected announcement that he will run for President again.
Trump featured the new collection in four posts on his Instagram account, which before this week had not been updated since January 2021. According to the CollectTrumpCards website, the collection is now sold out.
The website states, “Each Series 2 Trump Digital Trading Card has a unique pre-assigned rarity. Some will be one-of-ones (the only one in the world), while others will be limited,” with a maximum of 10 copies of each card.
The collection features Trump in a variety of poses and situations. In one image, the former President stands in outer space, arms crossed, looking on as a lion made of flames and wearing a ‘45’ crown plants its paw on the Northeastern United States. Another card features the reality star clad in full leather sitting astride a Trump-branded motorcycle while playing a 1950s-style electric guitar. Still another NFT depicts Trump dressed as George Washington in a recreation of the first President’s famous crossing of the Delaware River in a rowboat.
The second NFT series was priced at $99 per card, the same as the first series released on December 14, which also sold out very quickly.
“I could have raised the price MUCH HIGHER, & I believe it still would have sold well, with a lot more money coming to me, but I didn’t choose to do so,” Trump wrote on Instagram. “I WILL BE GIVEN NO ‘NICE GUY’ CREDIT?”
The release of series 2 has driven down the value of the December collection, which was trading at 0.40 ETH the day before the April 18 release before falling to its current floor price of 0.139 ETH, or $293, according to NFT Price Floor.
Series 1 saw a price surge following Trump’s indictment by a grand jury in New York on March 30, with sales volumes rising and floor prices hitting 0.55 ETH.
The previous low floor price of the first collection was 0.145 ETH, which it hit on January 6, 2022, the 1-year anniversary of the U.S. capitol “insurrection” that remains a very divisive event in U.S. politics – and hit a high of 0.675 ETH on February 13.
