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Sunday, May 24, 2009

Gold Coins or Gold Bullion for Investing

By Cindy Wilson

You should diversify your portfolio with gold and you should also diversify your gold portfolio. There are many different types of gold you can invest in and diversify your gold portfolio, including gold bullion, domestic and foreign, modern gold coins, domestic or foreign and antique gold coins, domestic and foreign.

There are many options of gold withing each category that also allows you to either receive and store your own gold or allow the broker or dealer to store your gold for you. Most people that are buying gold in case of financial disaster feel that keeping your own gold is the whole point of buying gold. Those investors believe that because of the antique gold coins intrinsic and collector value that they are immune confiscation by the government.

On the other hand, gold bullion in recent history has been confiscated by the US government and there are several organizations that are trying to push legislation through that will fix that situation by not allowing the government to be able to confiscate personally owned gold bullion or coins of any kind.

Can the US government confiscate foreign gold bullion or modern foreign gold coins? Back when gold was confiscated by President Roosevelt in 1933, foreign gold and foreign gold coins "earmarked or held in trust for a recognized foreign government or foreign central bank"

That would mean that if we go by what happened in history, foreign gold bullion and foreign gold coins would be safe from US gold confiscation. That's what happened before, but the US government can make laws to fit the situation, so the way it happened before, may not be the way it happens in the future.

Antique gold coins are many salespeople's favorite products because of their higher markup and profit margins. A lot of dealers and telemarketers take advantage of investor fears about the gold confiscation that Roosevelt ordered in 1933. In recent history, President Ford issued his own executive order repealing the Roosevelt order used to confiscate gold in 1933.

In 1977 Congress removed the president's authority over gold transactions during a national emergency other than war. What does this mean? Probably nothing. Sales people that use historic events to sell their most profitable inventory are not being completely honest and preying on investor fears of previous events. This shows that the previous gold confiscation has nothing to do with what the government may do in the future.

Just because President Roosevelt exempted antique gold coins and foreign bullion doesn't mean a current administration would go by those same guidelines. The truth is, no one knows what will happen in the future, especially in the event of a financial collapse. - 23199

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