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The Best Investment Gold Coins

By David W. Baker

Investment gold coins, gold coins pursued and purchased for investing purposes, are many and varied. They range from those struck this year as legal tender in obscure, out-of-the-way places to the pale gold amalgam (electrum) coins of the ancient Lydians.

But which are the best investment gold coins?

Are they the rarest gold coins? Are they the ones most in demand? Are these one and the same? How difficult are they to obtain?

With any investment, gold coin or otherwise, one would hope to have some level of liquidity. There should be enough of a market, that is, enough people with interest, knowledge, and the necessary funds to buy the coins when it comes time to sell them.

US gold coins struck prior to 1933 are highly collectible, and include many issues that have performed well over the years as investments. There are several important factors to which the demand for these pieces is attributed:

They are common enough to have been available to a relatively large group of people over many years.
They are scarce enough to experience disproportionate price increases when the price of gold has gone up. Prices for rare US gold coins, plotted over the last half century, describe an ascending sine wave of overall increase.
US gold coins are historic, tracing their origin to the earliest years of the United States Mint. They are artifacts of American growth and US financial history.
Of course, these coins are beautiful to own and possess. They have the divine heaviness cited by Goldfinger in the long ago movie of the same name.

But here a word of caution should intrude. Investing in traditional US gold coins is not day trading. Numismatic investment in general is best accomplished using a Buy and Hold strategy. The coin market does not proceed upward without interruption, as anyone who held coins through the 1980s will attest. In time however, even the most ill-timed of US gold coin investments has worked out well for one with patience, moving from losing proposition to a worthy capital conservation tactic and ultimately to the fruits of what, in hindsight, was a brilliant decision!

For more US gold coin information, and some noteworthy coin photography in support of this subject, consider a visit to relevant pages of my web site. Start with http://www.valuable-coin-stories.com/us-gold-coin.html and proceed from there.

About The Author

I've collected coins since age 11 -- so, more than half a century. Coins have been a pleasant distraction over the years. Though I've never been a coin dealer, I have occasionally sold a coin or two at a nice profit, when the market was right. These experiences have taught me a bit about coin value in the marketplace. But I have to say that my greatest pleasure with coins has been the hooks they have to history and other areas of learning. And, I can never quite get beyond the feeling that, if any of my coins could talk, the stories would be priceless! You may test this proposition at my web site, http://www.valuable-coin-stories.com

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Gold certificates are titles for a stipulated amount of gold. You can take physical delivery of the gold or trade on it through the certificates. Another scheme is to go in for a gold accumulation plan - one that allows you to buy gold for a fixed sum each month. This allows you to benefit from acquiring it at a market average price.
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A very common type of world paper collection is to collect notes from "every country". The definition of every country can vary greatly, but this type of collection is relatively inexpensive.
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The $20 Saint Gaudens Double Eagle gold coin has been considered by many to be one of the most beautiful coins ever created. In addition to its beauty, investors privately acquire this gold coin which has outperformed gold bullion. This gold coin the Twenty Dollar gold piece also known as the Double Eagle is placed in the portfolios of investors worldwide for privacy and the guarantee that the United States government cannot go back and make anymore of these coins.
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Generally speaking, 19th century gold coins with very low original mintage figures tend to have prooflike surfaces more often than not. As an example, the 1890 quarter eagle pictured above is an issue with a mintage of only 8,720 and it is often found with reflective surfaces. Some of the other types of coins that are sometimes seen with prooflike surfaces include Philadelphia Type Three gold dollars, Philadelphia quarter eagles from the 1870's and 1880's, Three Dollar gold pieces and Liberty Head double eagles from the 1890's.
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For most of history, coins were valued based on the precious metal they contain. Whether a coin is made by who it appears to be was of secondary importance compared to whether it contains the correct amount of metal, that is, right weight and fineness. Genuine appearance was simply a convenient shortcut to avoid time-consuming tests in everyday transactions.
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