Coins

These days you can buy gold coins from places like United States Gold Bureau.

It seems odd when you think about it, you buy coins. That's like spending coins to get coins. The secret is what they are made of. Gold has been doing well as an investment commodity recently. The price has been steadily increasing and the stability of solid, tangible investments isn't lost in the modern world of inflation, recession and austerity.

You can buy gold as coins, have it kept safe in a depository or your own personally storage facility. The coins have a face value, which means there is a minimum level below which they can't drop. But as the value of the gold increases the resale value of the coins goes up.