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How to Roll over Part of Your IRA or 401k to Physical Gold

How to Roll over Part of Your IRA or 401k to Physical Gold

Rolling over part of your IRA or 401k to physical gold can be a smart way to diversify your retirement portfolio and protect your savings from market volatility, inflationary pressure and hedge your account in the event of a stocks crash.

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What is a Gold IRA?

What is a Gold IRA?

A Gold IRA is a type of self-directed IRA that allows you to invest in physical gold, silver, platinum, and palladium instead of or alongside more traditional assets such as stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. A Gold IRA offers investors a way to help diversify and hedge their retirement portfolios and…

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How to Hold Physical Gold in an IRA?

How to Hold Physical Gold in an IRA?

How to Hold Physical Gold in an IRA? Adding gold to an individual retirement account (IRA) is an increasingly popular way for Americans to save for their retirement, especially during times of financial and geopolitical turmoil. While traditional IRAs typically invest in stocks, bonds…

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Adding American Eagle Gold Coin Proofs to Your IRA

Adding American Eagle Gold Coin Proofs to Your IRA

The Pros and Cons of Diversifying Your Retirement Portfolio With Proof Coins: Even today less than honest bullion dealers are regularly sanctioned by the government for taking advantage of naive investors and selling proof coins far above market value…

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4 Tips For Investing In Gold For Your IRA

4 Tips For Investing In Gold For Your IRA

A Gold IRA can protect its owner from falling dollar values – when the dollar decreases in value, gold doesn't; therefore, it keeps its value regardless of inflation. At the same time, the same issue is present in the stock market.

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How Does a Gold IRA Work?

How Does a Gold IRA Work?

One of the Most Common Questions We’re Asked is ‘How Does a Gold IRA Work?’ What exactly is it that makes an IRA a better place to hold gold than a regular diversified portfolio? Why bother with the extra paperwork?

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4 Reasons People Invest In Precious Metals

4 Reasons People Invest In Precious Metals

Along with other forms of investments, precious metals such as gold, silver, and platinum have been increasingly popular modes of investment recently. Due to their rarity and scarcity, these valuable commodities have withstood the test of time, making them a perfect addition to people’s investment portfolios.

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How Does Investing in Gold Work?

How Does Investing in Gold Work?

The purchasing of gold in coins or bars is one of the more satisfying ways to own gold – being able to touch the gold coins or bars, feeling their weightiness all while admiring their sparkle and sheen brings a kind of emotional satisfaction to the owner unavailable in any other investment.

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Strategies for Collecting American Silver Eagles

Strategies for Collecting American Silver Eagles

There are almost as many different ways to collect Silver Eagles as there are coins in the series, which now number over 100 different issues. So where do you start?

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What Are Mint State Coins?

What Are Mint State Coins?

Even if you are relatively new to coin collecting, you probably already know that the value of a coin is directly tied to its condition. But what are Mint State Coins?

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Kennedy Half Dollars for Beginners

Kennedy Half Dollars for Beginners

The 1964 Kennedy Half Dollar was met with tremendous success as many Americans wanted to save the coin as a memento. As a result, the Kennedy Half Dollar became one of the most successful half dollar coin programs in the history of the U.S. Mint.

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Will The US Mint Stop Making Burnished Eagles?

Will The US Mint Stop Making Burnished Eagles?

Will the U.S. Mint Stop Producing it’s Burnished Silver Eagles in 2021? Bullion.Directory precious metals guest post 27 January, 2020 By Nick Adamo President at Bullion Shark LLC The Burnished […]

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What Is My Coin Collection Worth?

What Is My Coin Collection Worth?

How Do I Know What My Rare Coin Collection is Worth? Bullion.Directory precious metals guest post 25 January, 2020 By Nick Adamo President at Bullion Shark LLC Many people inherit […]

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How to Protect My Rare Coin Collection

How to Protect My Rare Coin Collection

Your rare coin collection is something you should be proud of. It is likely part of your “nest egg.” You have spent some of your hard-earned money to build a unique and impressive coin collection, so it is important that you keep it safe.

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Are Pre-1933 Gold Coins a Buy Right Now?

Are Pre-1933 Gold Coins a Buy Right Now?

Years ago, premiums over spot gold were significantly higher than they are today. Premiums over spot for common date $20 Saint Gaudens, Gold Liberties, and Gold Indians were sometimes north of 20-30%. Now, they can be found for less than a 10% markup over spot.

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8 Golden Rules To Avoid Being Ripped Off

8 Golden Rules To Avoid Being Ripped Off

Gold & Silver Investors’ 8 Commandments for Avoiding Rip Offs Bullion.Directory precious metals analysis 17 July, 2018 By Stefan Gleason President of Money Metals Exchange For every promising investment opportunity […]

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Beware of this New Precious Metals IRA Scheme…

Beware of this New Precious Metals IRA Scheme...

There Is Only One Right Way to Do a Precious Metals IRA Bullion.Directory precious metals analysis 13 September, 2016 By Clint Siegner Director of Money Metals Exchange A small handful […]

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Did You Buy Fake Gold Or Silver?

Did You Buy Fake Gold Or Silver?

Finding a counterfeit gold or silver coin in your stash is far more probable than one might think. Bullion.Directory precious metals guest post 12 August, 2016 By John Fisher President […]

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Classic Gold and Silver Bullion

Precious metals investors most commonly buy modern gold and silver bullion, which allows them to receive the most metal for their money. Bullion.Directory precious metals guest post 19 February, 2016 […]

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Quick Look: Gold-Silver Ratio and Silver Investors

Firstly – what IS the gold to silver ratio? Bullion.Directory precious metals guest post 11 February, 2016 By Nick Adamo President at Bullion Shark LLC This is the ratio between […]

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Silver Stacking

Who DOESN’T want to build a tower out of solid silver bricks? Bullion.Directory precious metals guest post 09 February, 2016 By Nick Adamo President at Bullion Shark LLC Silver bullion […]

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Bullion, Numismatics or Both?

Bullion, Numismatics or Both?

Do you buy bullion or invest in rare coins and collectibles? Bullion.Directory precious metals guest post 25 January, 2016 By Nick Adamo President at Bullion Shark LLC People who buy […]

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Could You Be Ruining The Value Of Your Rare Coins?

One careless move and you could see your coin’s value plummet Bullion.Directory precious metals guest post 25 January, 2016 By Nick Adamo President at Bullion Shark LLC Coin Collecting has […]

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The Most Famous U.S. Gold Coin: The Saint Gaudens

America’s enduring favorite, with prices to suit all budgets Bullion.Directory precious metals guest post 24 January, 2016 By Nick Adamo President at Bullion Shark LLC The Saint Gaudens $20 gold piece has […]

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Business-Strike vs. Proof Silver Eagles

Business-Strike vs. Proof Silver Eagles

What differentiates each type of Silver Eagle and which is more suitable for the investor? Bullion.Directory precious metals guest post 23 January, 2016 By Nick Adamo President at Bullion Shark […]

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1986 Silver Eagle: Bullion Quality, MS69 or MS70?

Investment choices in the ’86 classic – which is best for you? Bullion.Directory precious metals guest post 20 January, 2016 By Nick Adamo President at Bullion Shark LLC The 1986 silver […]

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Graded Rare Coins Vs. Graded Bullion

Bullion With Attitude (and Added Bling) Bullion.Directory precious metals guest post 19 January, 2016 By Nick Adamo President at Bullion Shark LLC NGC, Numismatic Guaranty Corporation, and PCGS, Professional Coin […]

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The Most Popular Silver Bullion on the Market

Bullion Shark’s Nick Adamo takes a look at two of the biggest selling silver bullion coins – the Silver Eagle and Silver Maple Bullion.Directory precious metals guest post 10 December, […]

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