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Gold and Money
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Gold coins and refuge investments. Why invest, how to buy gold coins, investment and taxation, when to sell, crisis, tax avoidance.
- Added on: Jan 8th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Recent Posts
The virtues of a reliable currency when all the others have disappeared
Let’s imagine it’s 2018. The western world has gone through years of deflation then the flame returns as massive inflation repeating what happened in Germany in 1923. Jean was still selling luxury yachts on the Côte d’Azur in 2008. Followi...
Gold and silver coins. Primarily an object with meaning.
We have spoken of the usefulness of gold coins as insurance during periods of crisis. We have also talked about the lever effect of the premium which makes them outperform any other method of investing in gold metal. In short, we have talked about th...
The last country to still use gold as a currency
The local shop is run by two Chinese who get by in Taki-Taki, the local language. They sell almost everything; food of course but also tools, shovels, generator spare parts, big hoses, a sort of thick plastic carpet, like a hair mat. The prices are d...
The 20 FRF Marianne Rooster, the emblematic Napoleon gold coin
The 20 FRF Marianne Rooster is the French gold coin that is emblematic of the period when golden francs shone over Europe. It was the first time for a number of years that an original design (by Jules-Clément Chaplain) had been used on the obverse a...
The California gold rush - Gold’s history
In 1848, for the first time in history, an accidental discovery in California gave everyone and anyone the chance to get rich thanks to gold. It all started in 1839 with John Sutter, an ambitious immigrant from the village of Kandern in Germany. Sutt...
The quality of investment specific gold coins
All too often, buyers of investment gold tend to forget the quality of the coins they are buying until they come to sell them when an unpleasant surprise greets them. In reality, when you sell gold coins they go back to being numismatic objects for a...
