For thousands of years Gold has been used as currency and been a highly prized precious metal. Gold has always been a favored investment to hedge your portfolio against inflation. Gold prices in the international gold market can remain fairly stable through times of instability, recession and currency fluctuations.

The ways of investing in gold can be via purchasing physical gold bullion in the form of gold bars or gold rounds, minted gold coins. Gold shares in gold mining companies are also available and various types of gold funds or mutuals that are managed by professional investors.

Some advantage when you holding at least a small percentage of your stock portfolio in gold bullion is:

• stable price of gold can help insure your investment portfolio against economic instability.
• gold bullion prices may fluctuate over the years but gold investments are highly unlikely to get devalued and have performed well over recent years.

However, investing in gold bullion is not risk free. An investor can lose if they do not manage their portfolio wisely. Here are some tips to start your gold bullion coin collection:

• Make sure is investor or collector that will influence which coins to buy and which gold coin to “admire only”.
• For starters, silver bullion coins are a great idea as they come cheaper, thus you can generate an impressive collection in a shorter time.
• Focus on collecting a few types of bullion coins as starters.
• When buy gold bullion from your local dealer, take the time to check your dealer background first.
• When buy bullion online, the best method is to start buying from auction first before going to individual shops, as auction website such as eBay have feedback system tracking the past sales of the particular seller.