Thursday, September 13, 2012

Gold Coin Price Fluctuation in recent years

By Michael Fung


If you are planning to invest in gold, you probably know that the prices of gold coins, specially rare gold coins have been in wild swings lately. It seems like the coins might be too expensive to buy as an investment. However, keep in mind that these price changes of coins happen because of the price of bullion changes. These price swings often affected more to the newer bullion coins than the old rare or collectible coins such as old gold sovereigns.

The physical gold inside the older sovereigns are a smaller portion on the coin value. As a result of this and also the differences in coins conditions, each and every coin is then graded for the goal of assessing its value. Even so, as a consequence of the large number of coins in circulation, it is actually pretty much not possible to develop a price tag list for every single coin.

Those coins that are older, in good condition as well as what time period they were minted will determine their worth more than the gold content in the coins. The rarity of the coin will also play a huge role in its current value - the rarer the coin, the more it is worth.

If you had your gold sovereigns value assessed today, their worth today may be more or less than it was last week depending on the price of bullion. However, there are also many other factors that play a role in the fluctuation of prices. A major factor is due to the value of lower priced coins fluctuate drastically as the bullion does - whereas the value of higher priced coins are more stable.

Since there are more lower priced coins circulating, the value in gold sovereigns as a whole tend to change rapidly because the majority of those used as investments today are the lower priced coins, which take a sharper hit as the bullion changes. The older sovereigns are hard to come by. This is because most owners of these coins are collectors and they do not intend to sell these coins. Even with the price fluctuation that happens, gold coins should still have a place as part of your investment portfolio in order to counter act a decline of stock market.




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