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What share of your wealth is in gold metal?

JDelageJDelage Posts: 724 ✭✭
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I'm not talking about the value over melt of your coins, I am talking about the overall bullion value. Do you think it's 1%, 10%, more, less?

Thanks,

JD
"The greatest productive force is human selfishness."
Robert A. Heinlein
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  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭
    Less than .25%
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
    About 0.2% in actual physical metal.
  • my3centsmy3cents Posts: 1,411
    .01%

    My Auctions
  • RedneckHBRedneckHB Posts: 19,704 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I own 1 ounce of gold.
    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • waynemewayneme Posts: 852 ✭
    Well Cohodk
    if i was in a mood i would guess about 50% of your wealth
    { just joking} you left it open
  • BunkerBunker Posts: 3,926 ✭
    About .5% if I had to guess

    Edited to make it .5 In others words not much
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  • sellsatansellsatan Posts: 663
    Wealth? Uh, what?
  • DickyBetzDickyBetz Posts: 3,825
    I own a tiny half gram replica of a Saint and a 1 gram ronald reagan medal.
  • RGLRGL Posts: 3,784 ✭
    I collect coins, which are collectively known as "fool's gold" ... image
    The Ludlow Collection (DCAM/CAM)
    The Ludlow Brilliant Collection (1938-64)

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  • 500Bay500Bay Posts: 1,109 ✭✭✭
    2-3%
    Finem Respice
  • Freak1cFreak1c Posts: 714
    Around 2% to 3%, however am reaching for a 5% goal. Currently gold is climbing faster than I would like, so I may slow on buying until my time comes around again.

    Tom
  • ddbirdddbird Posts: 3,168 ✭✭✭
    I own 1/10 oz...so pretty much nothing.

    My grandfather did say he was going to give me his 10 OZ gold brick though...at some point. Hes using it as a paper weight at the moment.
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  • RedTigerRedTiger Posts: 5,608 ✭
    Between 0.5% and 1.0%.
    Investment blog: gold, stocks and more
  • JdurgJdurg Posts: 997 ✭
    I have no idea what my total wealth is, so I honestly don't know. image I figure I own about 1.5 ounces of gold in the forms of various gold coins, gold bars, and gold nuggets in my element collection. I've got approximately 0.95 ounces of platinum, two ounces of Palladium, and quite a few ounces of silver. (Probably a total of a five pounds of silver metal in the forms of eagles, maple leafs, bars, etc). Still, my pride and joy is my 10 gram button of Rhodium metal which has become my first sample/coin to ever be worth over a thousand dollars. image (At ~$3,100 an ounce, my 10 gram sample is just at the one grand mark).
    I collect the elements on the periodic table, and some coins. I have a complete Roosevelt set, and am putting together a set of coins from 1880.
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,461 ✭✭✭✭✭
    .00001%
    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭
    0.07%
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • mozinmozin Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭
    Bullion value is less than 2% of net worth.

    The numismatic value of my gold coins is around 6% of net worth.
    I collect Capped Bust series by variety in PCGS AU/MS grades.
  • DeadhorseDeadhorse Posts: 3,720 ✭
    Between 10 and 12%

    I can't believe I'm the only one, especially around here.

    I wouldn't mind one bit if I could raise that to 20% next year.
    "Lenin is certainly right. There is no subtler or more severe means of overturning the existing basis of society(destroy capitalism) than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
    John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
  • Freak1cFreak1c Posts: 714
    Between 10 and 12%

    Were not worthy... If the time and price permits, I am probably three to four years from that mark.

    Tom
  • beartracks42beartracks42 Posts: 2,834 ✭
    About 1% or so.
    Gary
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  • DeadhorseDeadhorse Posts: 3,720 ✭


    << <i>Between 10 and 12%

    Were not worthy... If the time and price permits, I am probably three to four years from that mark.

    Tom >>



    I bought most of mine a few years ago. The price rise has slowed me down accordingly. It's a mixed blessing in that sense.
    "Lenin is certainly right. There is no subtler or more severe means of overturning the existing basis of society(destroy capitalism) than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
    John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
  • JDelageJDelage Posts: 724 ✭✭
    Much less of a "gold bug" crowd than I thought...

    I'm probably around 5% - 10% myself, but it doesn't say much...
    "The greatest productive force is human selfishness."
    Robert A. Heinlein
  • WoodwindWoodwind Posts: 486 ✭
    Somewhere between 1 to 1.5%.
    Lurking proudly on internet forums since 2001
  • OKbustchaserOKbustchaser Posts: 5,548 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Depends on what my wedding band is worth today. That is the only gold I own.
    Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't love to look at a pretty bust.
  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My riches are in the Kingdom of Heaven.

    Oh, gold?

    Depends on what you mean by wealth... Net worth? Portfolio?

    Whatever I've accumulated in the past few years, I've definitely dollar-cost-averaged up.

    kitco says that bid is $492.50 right now, so I guess that I'm still OK. image

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  • coincollector1989coincollector1989 Posts: 856
    I too own 1 once of gold
    Stacy

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  • MrKelsoMrKelso Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭
    5% numismatic gold 20% gold bullion and several 100oz silver bars


    "The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares the LORD GOD Almighty."
  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,709 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Virtually nothing. I don't want any "investment" that depends on coin dealers as the market makers.
    All glory is fleeting.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,881 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Virtually nothing. I don't want any "investment" that depends on coin dealers as the market makers. >>



    Since when do coin dealers control the gold market?

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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    0
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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    .002

    But I have a fair amount of silver.
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • UncleJoeUncleJoe Posts: 2,551 ✭✭✭
    Depends on what my wedding band is worth today. That is the only gold I own.

    Ditto.

    Joe.
  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    I have negative net worth.
    Always took candy from strangers
    Didn't wanna get me no trade
    Never want to be like papa
    Working for the boss every night and day
    --"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,709 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Virtually nothing. I don't want any "investment" that depends on coin dealers as the market makers. >>



    Since when do coin dealers control the gold market? >>



    For the small investor they are the only practical way of buying and selling the physical metal.
    All glory is fleeting.
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,621 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I just never really figured the percentages of gold, silver, copper, nickel, zinc, steel, brass or platinum in my collection.

    I have always considered the collectiblity ( a complete set of Lincolns in a Whitman, or Indian heads, or Mercs)
    A doubled die, or a variety. A commemorative or two..... oh so many coins and so much metal.

    I'd have to go with Blinded by Ego and Deadhorse on this one....


    My riches are in heaven, too........ and on earth, I think about 10-15% of my collection is in gold.

    Note: I don't have any platinum ( PM me if you want to sell your Library of Congress bi-metal, though)

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  • CarlWohlforthCarlWohlforth Posts: 11,074 ✭
    Not much. %0.1
    Carl's Coins website w/ links to Carl's auctions
  • mercurynutmercurynut Posts: 3,207
    Lets say about 2-3%.
  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,313 ✭✭✭✭✭
    3% in gold/silver bullion. More if you count $20 Saints/Libs.

    I am slowly trying to build the bullion equation up, esp in silver.
    Trimmed the $20 gold position some following the recent strength.

    roadrunner
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  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Does gold medal include gold colored medal? Or do you actually mean GOLD.
  • mhammermanmhammerman Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭
    .33%

    Would like to get that up to about 2.0% but it will take some buks. Maybe on the end of year pull-back there may be some opportunity but I'm not going to adjust my plan to jump to 2%, it's just a goal.
  • BarryBarry Posts: 10,100 ✭✭✭
    Very close to zero.
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,392 ✭✭✭✭✭
    none
    theknowitalltroll;
  • JDelageJDelage Posts: 724 ✭✭


    << <i>For the small investor they are the only practical way of buying and selling the physical metal. >>



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    "The greatest productive force is human selfishness."
    Robert A. Heinlein
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Almost none.
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  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Does gold medal include gold colored medal? Or do you actually mean GOLD. >>




    image Must have a buncha them Sacaweegee's, huh?

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  • TorreroTorrero Posts: 205
    Not enough. Which is why I just joined this chat room. So I can learn more about it.
  • ARCOARCO Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭✭✭
    .0025% Gold sure is purdy, but you can't buy stuff at Wal-mart with it! image

    Tyler
  • JDelageJDelage Posts: 724 ✭✭


    << <i>Not enough. Which is why I just joined this chat room. So I can learn more about it. >>



    Technically, this is a bulletin board actually... image
    "The greatest productive force is human selfishness."
    Robert A. Heinlein
  • SlangNRoxSlangNRox Posts: 774 ✭✭
    Around 1%
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Between 1 and 2%.. about the same percentage as in automobiles or furniture/appliances

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

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