APMEX.com
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Look in the local Yellow Pages under categories like “Gold”, “Jewelry” and “Rare Coins” for a local dealer.
Pay cash.
Provident Metals. Lower premiums than APMEX and very good service.
Don’t.
Wherever you buy check the prices against the current market prices at somewhere like http://www.monex.com/liveprices. If you are lucky you can buy form an individual at the spot price or a bit more. The commodity prices are much higher.
Also, where do people keep their gold if they have investment quantities, i.e. more than a shoebox of coins? What secure storage is there that can be trusted to not be running a fractional reserve scam with clients assets?
I have found this website to be a very useful source of information on the economy, gold, and silver.
http://goldismoney.info/forums/
Stay away from the Tungsten.
Buy ‘junk’ gold coins.
They are easier to sell, in small denominations.
There is also some numismatic value, although that will deteriorate when TSHTF.
If discovered by the government - and purchases are tracked - they will not be likely to be confiscated as gold was under FDR, since they are collectibles and not hordes gold.
hordes = hoarded (Autospell fixer on my new Mac... G-r-r-r-r-r)!
jmbullion.com is my favorite. If you join the Members Brigade at thesurvivalpodcast.com, you get a discount.
Remember, when you buy gold, you are betting on long term inflation. If it turns out to be deflation, you lose.
one of the best ways is this one:
http://www.perthmint.com.au/investment_certificate.aspx
The gold is stored in a fault in Australia,
guaranteed by the Aussie gov.
Therefore....NO PLACE IS SAFE TO BUY GOLD,IMO, without some kind of sophisticated authentication that your gold is really gold and not mostly tungsten
...I like Mercury Dimes and "war nickles". Mercury dimes are 90% silver, are real US money and absolutely cannot be mistaken for anything else. If they are worn and dirty, they are probably not fake...Dimes are a small enough denomination that they will be more useful than a 1 oz gold bar WTSHTF. War nickles are 40% silver, but can be mistaken for last generation nickles if you are not paying attention since the design is the same .
..gold gives me the shivers. It is has little commercial value other than reflective coatings and plating for components which need to be oxide free.
I would say, however, if you bought .1 oz eagles would be better than big bars since if the objective here is a "store of value" small units would be more useful in "trade" than having to saw off a piece of your big bar in order to "buy" a loaf of bread.
For both “junk” coins and bullion, I’ve found this outfit to be reliable:
http://www.providentmetals.com/
you can buy it today ... GLD is the symbol. In your brokerage acct.
if you insist on taking physical possession, sell the GLD when you get your real gold.
best place I know:
http://www.tulving.com/goldbull.html#silver
www.providentmetals.com
Lowest over spot price I have found to date.
Personally - I am buying more silver though. Silver and Gold go hand in hand together usually.