How do you purchase you gold and silver. Coins Bars or both.

[Wolves]

I first started with a few bars and now only purchase coins in gold and silver. I have put this poll up to see which is the most popular way to buy gold and silver.

Thanks.

[DarkChameleon]

Mine also includes antiques and jewelry.

[Stuntman]

Gold: coins only at the moment.  In future, probably the same unless I can afford to buy a bar that is at least 250g in weight.

Silver: coins and bars.  In future, probably more bars (10oz or bigger) and fewer coins.

[knighthawk]

Haven t bought Gold at all yet, no idea what coin to pick lol

[goldstacker94]

I prefer gold coins over bars, there's a couple of reasons: 

1. UK legal tender gold coins are exempt from CGT and gold bars are not. 

2. The premiums on bars are very similar to bullion gold coins (sovereigns, Britannias etc). 

And for me personally, coins are much more attractive to look at than bars! 

[DarkChameleon]

8 hours ago, knighthawk said:

Haven t bought Gold at all yet, no idea what coin to pick lol

Sovereign and half sovereign, gold with history.

[knighthawk]

39 minutes ago, DarkChameleon said:

Sovereign and half sovereign, gold with history.

This is what I was thinking, but I'm not sure if I want to get a 2019 one or one from a meaningful year.

 

[DarkChameleon]

7 minutes ago, knighthawk said:

This is what I was thinking, but I'm not sure if I want to get a 2019 one or one from a meaningful year.

 

It's nice for me to have history with a coin...you can Google what happened that year..imagine having a coin from when dickensian was writing one of his books, or the wars in Africa were alive and kicking, maybe Victoria had just been widowed or sir Edmund Hillary just conquered everest.