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Gold Purity Guide
One of the most important concepts that a beginning precious metal investor has to learn is how the gold purity of coins, bars and jewelry is classified. Absolute purity of 100% can only be achieved theoretically under laboratory conditions. What’s more, it is not at all the case that higher gold purity is always better. ... Continue reading
Philippine Gold Coins
If you are a numismatic collector of gold coins, you are probably always looking for ways to diversify your collection. One possibility to do so is to buy coins from a country that is not so well-known for producing gold coins. Quite some time ago, Buy-Gold.Link already published articles about Swiss gold coins and Finnish ... Continue reading
Colonial US gold coins
At a time when “quantitative easing” is a common measure to increase the money supply, when banks create new money out of thin air through lending, when the US national debt is steadily increasing and when paper currency is no longer backed by anything (like it was during the time of the gold standard), it ... Continue reading
The US Mint’s Commemorative Arts Medals
Few precious metal investors are aware of the fact that the United States Mint ran another gold bullion program before the first American Gold Eagles came out in 1986. The reason for this is probably that the 10 different items that the US Mint released between 1980 and 1984 were not gold coins but gold ... Continue reading
Diamond Gold Coins
If you buy gold bullion coins for the purpose of investment, it is best to stick to the regular brilliant uncirculated coins as their premiums are generally the lowest. If you buy proof coins, you will already have to pay an additional collectibility premium. That is fine for numismatists but not for investors who want ... Continue reading
Gold Bullion Jewelry
Few gold buyers are familiar with the idea of buying gold bullion jewelry. When buying gold bullion, smaller investors usually prefer to buy gold coins whereas larger-scale (and especially institutional investors like banks, funds etc.) investors tend to prefer gold bars. The reason for this is simple. It costs more to produce small gold bars ... Continue reading
Olympic Gold Medals
When people think of gold medals as opposed to gold coins, the Olympic gold medals usually come to mind first. However, it has been quite a long time that the gold medals for the winners of the Olympic sports events were made out of solid gold. More on that later in the article. At the ... Continue reading
Rare US gold coins
One thing that coin buyers take for granted these days is that one year’s issue of a coin differs from another year’s issue only by the year of mintage. That was not always the case in the past. In fact, many historic US gold coins have special rare versions that differ from the standard version ... Continue reading
The Fort Knox gold reserves
Anyone who spends some time researching precious metals who hear the term “Fort Knox” at one point or another, often in combination with the term “gold reserves”. So what is Fort Knox you may be wondering? Fort Knox is a United States Army post that includes a fortified vault building whose official name is the ... Continue reading
Gold Gifts for Diwali?
Out of all the countries in the world where gold is traded (which is pretty much everywhere), India is undoubtedly the one that influences the gold spot price the most on the world market. The gold purchases for Indian weddings (to be given as a dowry and as wearable jewelry for the bride) alone contribute ... Continue reading
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