Who did the same?

I know of no gold bond issue within the last 90 years that was not offered by a mining company. Monetary Metals acknowledged such mining company bonds. When they said "first in 90 years" they explicitly said with the exception of mining companies.

If anyone can provide a reference to a Monetary Metals gold bond before the one described in my earlier post please do so. Somehow I missed it and would like to see it.

Monetary Metals issued a silver bond some time ago. They claimed that it was the first in more than 150 years. It paid 12%.

https://www.kitco.com/news/article/2024-06-20/monetary-metals-offers-silver-bond-first-time-over-150-years