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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Investing in Gold or Collecting Gold Coins

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Many people are often confused about how to invest in gold. Gold is a precious metal and can be traded on any open market. That does not mean that you can walk in the door caring a gold coin and and sell at market prices to a trader that just happens to walk by.

Our sponsor, the Monex deposit Company, once people to know the value of investing in gold. They offer many services relating to precious metals, from purchasing to storage trading and more. Any significant purchase or expenditures should always include investigation up front.

The best way to invest in gold is through a company that can hold him protect the gold for you as an asset providing you the ability to trade on the markets. If you want to collect gold coins for example, that's an entirely different thing. Collecting gold coins falls into several different categories and I'm only going to mention a couple. There are historical gold coins minted by an actual mint controedl by a government. And you can buy gold coin s minted by private companies that feature artistic renderings that sometimes look like gold coins minted by an actual government mint.

Gold coins with historical value, can develop extra value above and beyond the weight of the goal. If you own a gold coin from the ancient Roman Empire, it's going to have historical value in addition to the value of the actual goal. It would be unlikely for you to melt down that gold into a different form.

If you purchase a commemorative gold coin, say an artistic rendering of a coin from a recent event such as the Olympics or a space shuttle launch, or a presidential election, or some other historical event. In the near term this will not have much historical volume because it just happened. Several hundred years from now, it may have some historical value but that cannot be assured. 500 years from now goal they have no value at all if for example massive gold deposits are discovered on Mars. No one knows the future.

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