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Early American Gold in Beverly Hills: Four Coins That Show Why an Ounce Is Only the Beginning

October 5, 2026

Four important American gold issues reported at a new Beverly Hills gallery provide a useful lesson in serious numismatics: metal content is only the first chapter.

Are Gold Philharmonics a Good Investment? A Buyer’s Profile

October 2, 2026

Most American buyers can name every coin on their own shelf before they can name Europe’s best seller. The gold Vienna Philharmonic has been struck since 1989, was voted the best selling gold coin in the world four separate years, and carries a face value denominated in euros. Yet it tends to show up in […]

Canada’s Library of Parliament Gold Coin: Beautiful Architecture, Different Bullion Math

September 30, 2026

The Royal Canadian Mint's Library of Parliament issue is a detailed architectural collectible in 99.99% gold. U.S.-focused buyers should compare the premium, documentation and resale familiarity before choosing it over domestic alternatives.

Are Gold Britannias a Good Investment? A Buyer’s Profile

September 29, 2026

Most bullion coins ask for a certain amount of trust. You check the weight and the diameter, maybe you know the ring a good coin makes, and past that you are relying on the seal and the person who sold it to you. The Royal Mint decided that was not quite good enough. In the […]

Perth Mint’s 2027 Year of the Goat Arrives Early: Where Gold Ends and the Theme Begins

September 28, 2026

Perth Mint's 2027 Lunar Series III coins arrived months before the calendar turns. The one-ounce Goat contains real .9999 fine gold, but buyers should still ask what they are paying for beyond the metal.

Are Gold Pandas a Good Investment? A Buyer’s Profile

September 26, 2026

Every major bullion coin has a face you learn to recognize without thinking. Liberty striding into the sunrise, the springbok in mid-leap, the maple leaf with its fine vein lines. China went the other way in 1982, and it is still the only mint of consequence that does: the panda on the reverse gets redrawn […]

Are Gold Sovereigns a Good Investment? A Buyer’s Profile

September 23, 2026

Twenty gold coins, taped flat and threaded into the lining of a pair of trousers. That was the British Ministry of Defence’s answer during the 1991 Gulf War to an old and awkward question: what do you hand a soldier who might end up on the wrong side of a border with no usable currency? […]

Are Gold Maple Leafs a Good Investment? A Buyer’s Profile

September 14, 2026

Every bullion coin has an origin story, and the Canadian Gold Maple Leaf’s is unusually specific. By the late 1970s the South African Krugerrand had the private gold market mostly to itself, and then politics caught up with it. Boycotts and sanctions aimed at South Africa’s apartheid government made the Krugerrand awkward to buy through […]

Are $10 Indian Head Gold Eagles a Good Investment?

September 11, 2026

Type “gold eagle” into a search box today and you will mostly get the modern one-ounce bullion coin the U.S. Mint has struck since 1986. That is a perfectly good coin, and we have written about it. But the eagle as a denomination is much older. It goes back to 1795, it was worth ten […]

Are Krugerrands a Good Investment? A Buyer’s Profile

September 8, 2026

Almost every American who owns gold has handled a Krugerrand at some point, or been offered one, and a fair number are not quite sure what they are holding. The coin carries no dollar figure, no ounce marking that matches its weight on a scale, and a portrait of a nineteenth century Boer statesman most […]