yup. I never invest in metals markets or have anyone store my metals. I take possession myself. NO one cares more about MY metal than I do, lol. And good luck finding it, even with a metal detector, lol.
I’ll go a little nuts and buy a few rolls of silver eagles once a year, but thats only because once eagles get so old they do have a little numismatic value, especially if its a low mintage year.
All my eagles ive purchase in more recent times are actually spot value higher than what I paid for them with the premium included right now because the price is up so much.
I started dumping more into gold and even thats up so that what I bought even lately is averaging more than I paid…like up 20% if I average it all out.
Not a bad increase for less than a year.
No way to lose on metals as long as youre careful
Price goes down, dont sweat it…buy low…buy more at the lower price, get more more metal for less.
Price goes up, well you got your return…good on you.
Price stays level, great…keep buying at the price youve been comfortable with.
No way to lose on metals as long as one isnt in a rush, keeps plenty of fiat in reserve for bills and emergencies so one doesnt ever ‘need’ to sell for personal costs, but I spose that applies regardless of what ones investment choices are.
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I’d buy a copper coin for fun
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Yes. I have a degree in Finance and the stock right now is severely over-priced (part of it is that the petro-dollar is going through inflation.)
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yeah, it all just has that 08-09 vibe to it, like its all gonna come crashing down again with more bailouts and all.
Covid spending/fiat creation didnt help anything and now theyre trying to push this monkeypox thing that could turn into another round of that if it gets ugly again.
30 some odd trillion in debt…and thats not even all of it.
I dont have a degree in finance and even Im scared crapless about what I see.
I cant imagine what those of you who do have the education must be seeing and thinking about it.
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Exactly. Not to mention that the world-wide derivatives is over 1 quadrillion. Go look up Investopedia article called " How Big Is the Derivatives Market?" Silver is a better option right now but gold is still a good pick overall.
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All I know about gold is it’s part of a conspiracy theory I guess. Gravity Falls referenced it.
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yeah…thats what I meant about not even all of it. I heard that number and my brain almost logged out lol.
Well thanks…i’ll do that this evening! 
I kinda spread it out…gold silver and platinum…with some palladium and rhodium when they behave themselves, lol.
I made an murderous killing on Rhodium. Got it when it was under $1000 and it shot up pushing to like $26000+ when I sold.
just bought some on a whim one day and lucked out, lol.
Didnt take the payout, they shipped me the $$$ amount in silver.
Lately Ive been buying some of the old Napoleonic gold…late 1800s/early 1900s…French Roosters mostly. just under 5th of an oz and generally really good premiums. 0.900 fine, so still very easy to sell if I ever decide to.
I love gold eagles but often do not like the premiums, even on the 1oz’ers.
Silver is really good for someone just getting into metals too. Thats where I started back in 1985.
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I have a few little ingots/bars of silver and gold. Nothing that I would call extravagant. They were gifts over the years. I hate jewelry and seems I had difficult to shop for 
Not like I can retire or anything.
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Considering there is really no established standard of any form of coinage in the game that’s existed long enough to hold nostalgic value, I would pass.
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I never really thought about it but i would guess it would be 1 ozt for each of the coins i guess in my head if they ever came out with such a thing.
Silver is better than both gold and platinum because you can get Lugia. Ho-oh is stupid and gen 4 was just bad.
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I’d be worried they were just plated like so much “Real gold and silver!” stuff these days. Even the Olympic medals are now just plated garbage, like pennies.
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yeah…definitely a legit concern.
MY LCS here has a machine that they use to verify stuff when they get it second market, but I still only buy new stuff straight from their sources, except for those Roosters I mentioned above…and with those its very easy to find the fakes if you did cross one since the coins that have been around 100+ years and the problems the fakes have has been common knowlebge for so long…ie check the designers name on the front…it should be VERY fine, not heavy lettering. The color should be more coppery than pure gold given the roosters are 10% copper. I crossed one a while back that was the color of 999 gold, so very likely a gold plated fake that someone was trying to push off.
Best thing to do is like I said way up there, ONLY buy from established reputable sources. Never private sellers, not even Ebay is always safe, and certainly avoid pawn shops like the plague.
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Hubby bought some stock a few weeks ago. $2000 worth of shares. It’s up to 70,000 now. He sold off a few to cover the initial cost and is just going to wait and see. No loss. Our financial adviser said not to, but he did it anyways.
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I do, no platinum, but I have other coins.
There would be mild commemorative value to minting WoW themed bullion, but I don’t think the collectors market would be too big, and they’d just go for spot price when you sold them.
They’d still be fun. I’d pick up a 1 ounce silver piece if they had one available, for fun.
You should go to a coin show near you, there’s just all sorts of silver coins. Some are really fabulous. But, in the end, they’re just worth spot price. But that’s ok.
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I mean, I still have the mock Septim from TES: Oblivion’s collector’s edition lying around somewhere. (I’m pretty sure it’s just gold-painted metal though)
The question is, what would be stamped on the coin? The goblin face? The dragon? The weird bird?
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the only thing i’m invested in are low-fee index funds
super boring and relatively slow, but reliable
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Proably not, perhaps silver or copper. I have some .25 oz gold coins and one full oz, but they are very expensive.
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I never really got the metal hype personally.
The whole thing has always came across as fear mongering to me. I don’t get the “imma buy a mountainside to burrow into and hoard shinies” mentality. Not like we all have smelters at home. So, here we are in mad max trading chunks of metal (that has no survival benefit) for scraps if we are lucky enough to find someone who is optimistic enough that things will get better. Hoping we don’t get shanked on the way to break down our home stash.
Gold has only beat the DIJA for brief periods during some really wonky economic cycles in the last 30 years. Even then, playing any kind of long game you were better off with treasuries, real estate, or just an index fund.
For jewelry or collectible coins sure. They both are joyful endeavors to people who like looking pretty or collecting stuff. There’s value in entertainment even if I personally think it’s a bad investment strategy.
I posted elsewhere about not treating entertainment as a form of investing, but this would be an intersect I could get behind. At least you’re getting the value of the metal itself as a hedge if you ever want to shift hobbies and sell. The loss (real, opportunity, or erosion of purchasing power) is just the cost of entertainment and pretty minimal in the grand scheme of things.
I’d imagine it would be market price plus some premium to have a blizzard logo on one side and artist draw up an orc for the other side.
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Honestly copper and silver are your best bet…both are heavilly used in industry and so quite necessary.
Gold gets a bit sketchy for me because its mostly held as an ‘asset’, even often in jewelry form people own it to hold value…not used nearly as much in industrial uses as silver an copper.
If I could source copper close to spot, id horde the stuff, personally
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