Supply Yourself with Bullion Coins
Jun0
Precious metals sold in bulk form are called bullion coins for sale. Bullion is often in either ingot or coin form, with ingots the more popular choice as finance fallback options. The nature of bullion demands a high purity of the metal concerned, and 99.99% is the common purity value, though 99.999% or higher isn’t unknown ; the higher the purity, the bigger the value. While bullion gold ingots are typically traded one troy-ounce units, bullion gold coins are minted in diverse sizes and weights.
These coins are typically stamped with a face price, which is commonly much lower than the cost of the coin as bullion and collector’s item. The cost of a bullion gold coin is relatively higher than bullion gold bars, thanks to the associated numismatic value. So the components that make up the cost of a bullion gold coin are: the current value of the gold employed in minting the coin, the price added as a specially-minted coin, and the collector’s premium — dependent on how rare it is and how fashionable it is among collectors. Auctions for bullion gold coins can drive the price far above the mint costs, since collectors can be a competitive lot.
Bullion coins are produced by many countries around the planet. Examples of these are S. A. ’s Krugerrand, Canada’s Maple Leaf, Australia’s Nugget, Britannia from the United Kingdom, and American Gold Eagle by the USA. As an example of how far the face value of a bullion coin is different from its real price, take the Yankee Gold Eagle. A one troy-ounce American Gold Eagle is given a face value of fifty US bucks ; while the bullion gold used alone costs just about 900 US dollars! After adding the minting premium, it comes out at approximately USD 950 — a shocking 900% increase of its face value!
An engaging fact : in 2007, the Royal Canadian Mint produced a 99.999% pure gold ( often referred to as 5 9s gold ) coin weighing an astonishing 100 kilograms, with a face value of 1,000,000 Canadian greenbacks. It was originally done as a hoopla stunt, but some collectors wished to have their own. Now, the Royal Canadian mint makes these monster coins to order. It is 50 centimeters in diameter and a huge 3 centimeters in thickness.
Bullion coins are also available in silver, platinum, vanadium, and some other precious metals, depending on the mint that produces them. These coins are beautiful and valuable. What’s more, they do not lose value as currency does, so they make good nest eggs for those “just in case” situations.
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What Category of Bullion to Buy for Investments
May0
A strange thing happens on the market of bullion investments right now. For almost a year the “talking heads” have been trying to impose their opinion of gold and silver bullion going as normal, without any hype on the market to buy it.
Despite that, starting from the mid of summer 2008 – before the whole world started to talk about crisis and recession – the experts who were working with bullion started to notice problems with meeting the demand of the clients. Because the demand for bullion investments increased, and the supply got even shorter than before.
You can ask, “Why shorter than before?” – there is no definite answer, but most likely because behind the curtain some big players already started to buy bullion.
Today you can do a simple test – try to buy junk silver coins.
A year ago people would consider you to be crazy when you were trying to explain them why junk silver coins should be a nice object investment. And you could buy them without any problems.
Today you will face a huge problem to buy these coins. Even if you find the site which says “available”, then when it comes down to the real purchase, most likely you will get a message of “We apologize for the inconvenience, at the moment we have sold the last available and wait for the new delivery, but meanwhile…” and this is where they will give you a list of other bullion options that you can get right now.
No one is going to say that junk silver coins is an ideal bullion investment. No, there are plenty of other bullion products. But junk coins are a good proof what has happened on this market, despite the candy smiles of the “experts” saying “it’s ok, all as usual.” Coins are cheap, they are not of big numismatic value, and people naturally wiped out the market within less than a year.
What to do?
First of all, do not panic. There are some bullion investment products available, and the mass audience does not know about them yet. For example – take into consideration silver maple leaf (also known as Canadian silver maple leaf). The concept is the same as with junk coins, but they are still available for the purchase on the market, and you can save the paper money from inflation.
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