The Sky Is The Limit With Gold Coins

May 16, 2009 - With American Coins experiencing a shortage at the United States Mint, due to unprecedented demand of course, a number of investors are actually turning to Canadian Maple Leaf coins and Krugerrands to top off their investments.

True, these gold coins don't really have the same sort of iconic, archetypal appeal to Americans looking to purchase gold coins as the Saint Gaudens coins like the Lady Liberty, but they are a solid choice for coin investing, nonetheless, following many of the same standards of purity, weight and content as the United States Mint gold coins.

To provide a basic introduction to the Canadian Maple Leaf coins, each type of coin has something of a theme to it. In 2007 they minted a two hundred dollar coin being a one troy ounce disc of .999999 pure gold with a leaf on one side and the Queen on the other. They.....

July 2, 2009 – Gold coin investments are becoming an increasingly popular way for Americans to protect their hard-earned wealth throughout this financial crisis, and in the past eight years, many of them have increased in value more than 300% while other investing markets tumbled as a result of weaker dollar values and a crumbling economy. The majority of American investors who purchase gold coin investments diversify with modern-day bullion coins such as the American Eagles and South African Krugerrands, but did you know that these bullion products have been outperformed by investment-grade rare coins such as the $20 Saint Gaudens and $20 Lady Liberties? That’s right, investment-grade rare coins have increased in value at a higher rate than bullion coins because their numismatic (rarity) value tends to appreciate faster than bullion over time. For example, if an investor owned gold coin investments in bullion between 2001 and 2008, the coins could have increased in.....