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How to Buy Gold Coins for investing

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Gold as an investment is a must in these times of low inflation and severe recessionary trends. The most common way of investing in gold is to buy the gold coins and these gold coins will be your hedge against the dollar devaluation also. You can also invest in gold bullion coins and bars. There are various of type fop gold coins like the Historic European gold coins or the South American gold coins. Then there are the historic US gold coins. The other option is the graded historic $20 gold coins. Read to find about how to get this gold coins and from where?

Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Instructions
  1. Step 1

    The first place to buy the American Eagle Gold Bullion coins from the US government authorized coin dealers and also a lot of banks.

  2. Step 2

    A lot of brokerage houses are also authorized to sell the American Eagle gold coins

  3. Step 3

    For buying the Maple leaf gold coins from the Royal Canadian mint then you should visit their website and get the list of authorized dealers for the same.There are a lot of dealers that sell the gold coins online. Always talk to the representative before buying.

  4. Step 4

    If you are planning to buy the Kruggererand then South African Mint has the list of all the authorized international dealers.

  5. Step 5

    Before buying check the current price of gold at Monex and also on various other financial websites. You can add a certain premium on top of that for the distribution expenses etc. The spot prices for bullion are a good indicator of the gold coin prices.

Tips & Warnings
  • Always make sure that gold coin comes to you in a bubble pack and if that bubble wrap is tampered then talk to the dealer immediately and also report on the appropriate mint website.

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