Depends on why you're buying. Bullion is the closest you can get to buying gold for gold at the price of gold.
Currency and commemorative coins cost more, usually based on how rare and desirable they are, and the condition they're in. Uncirculated proofs are very expensive, but very pretty.
If you might sell to someone other than a metallurgist one day, the easiest ones to sell are the most well known because their purity is almost guaranteed to the buyer- US coins, British coins, German coins.
They vary in purity, but it's standardized and guaranteed by the backing government, so you know what you're getting. You also pay slightly more for it than for a hunk of gold.
Depends on why you're buying. Bullion is the closest you can get to buying gold for gold at the price of gold.
Currency and commemorative coins cost more, usually based on how rare and desirable they are, and the condition they're in. Uncirculated proofs are very expensive, but very pretty.
If you might sell to someone other than a metallurgist one day, the easiest ones to sell are the most well known because their purity is almost guaranteed to the buyer- US coins, British coins, German coins.
They vary in purity, but it's standardized and guaranteed by the backing government, so you know what you're getting. You also pay slightly more for it than for a hunk of gold.
I wanted to fill my gun safe with shiny metal. One day I need it, or one day my kid gets it.
Eh, fill your gun safe with blued metal. :)
Put the shiny stuff in the other safe.
There is tons of blues steel. Enough I should be selling at this point.
Hmm, I have a shiny piece of metal . . . LOL :)