Why You Should Never Clean a Collectible Coin
Cleaning a collectible coin can strip value and hide originality. Here’s why collectors and dealers alike leave coins as found.
Gold Coins Today Editorial Team
How to Store Coins to Prevent Damage
Learn how temperature, humidity, PVC holders, and handling affect coins, and what materials help prevent tarnish, corrosion, and scratches.
Precious Metals Sales Tactics to Watch For
Learn to recognize common pressure tactics in precious metals sales, from urgency framing to inflated numismatic premiums.
Capital Gains Considerations for Collectibles
A general, non-advisory look at how capital gains concepts apply to coins and collectibles, and why records and professional guidance matter.
How Collectors Distinguish Collecting From Investing
How coin collectors tell collecting apart from investing, and why knowing your own motivation shapes what and how you buy.
What “Safe Haven Asset” Means and Its Limits
What people mean by “safe haven asset,” why gold gets the label, and what that term does not guarantee.
Understanding Volatility in Precious Metals Markets
Why gold and silver prices swing, what drives short-term volatility, and how to think about it before buying or selling.
Storage and Custody Considerations for Physical Metals
How home safes, bank boxes, and third-party vaults differ for storing gold and silver, and what custody really means.
Questions to Ask Before Opening a Precious Metals IRA
Key questions to ask about custodians, storage, fees, and coin eligibility before opening a precious metals IRA.
Understanding the Concept of a Gold-Backed IRA
What a gold-backed IRA actually is, how it works mechanically, and the questions worth asking before treating one as part of a retirement plan.