Gold may be worth owning, but it’s not that easy to spend. Need a loaf of bread and a half gallon of milk? How does 7/11 make change for that Krugerrand?
My wife convinced me to by the 1/10 oz gold coins since they are actually affordable ($145.00) recently.
Buy one a month and you have an oz. of gold at the end of the year. We gave up 4 magazine subscriptions and an Easton PRess book a month subscription to make up the difference in spending on the family budget.
Let's be glad gold's not money. If it were then we'd be dealing with 32% inflation since last Oct.
Sell it for fiat paper when needed. What if Au went to 10 or 20,000 per ounce!?
Junk silver might be better for direct buying and selling.