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Physical Gold Insights

Investors who have a vision of building their wealth by investing in precious metals like gold and silver, irrespective of whether they are beginners or experts, always benefit from regular industry insights from our experts. At Physical Gold, our investment advisory team specialise in providing valuable guidance to investors just like yourselves. Our section on insights has been created with this end in mind and provides you with helpful information like mitigating risks when investing in precious metals, or the best places to get market information or buy bullion.

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What’s the Value of Gold Britannia Coins?

What is a Gold Britannia worth? The value of a gold Britannia coin is based on the underlying spot price on the market, combined with the supply and demand for the particular coin. Generally, the 1oz gold coin will fetch around 96-98% of the current spot gold price. Gold Britannia coins have only been around […]
Advantages and Disadvantages of Silver and Gold Investment

Gold and Silver Investment All fans of the old spaghetti-style western movies would remember the film – “The good, the bad, and the ugly”. Speculative investors often invest in a typical cowboy style without understanding the dynamics of the market. In a world where online gold dealers are becoming increasingly popular, savvy investors need to […]
Should I Invest In Gold Or Silver? – Physical Gold Video

Silver investing now and in the coming years In this video, we’ll take a look at silver’s prospects for 2020 and beyond. Over the past 5 years, interest in silver has grown exponentially to the point where we now get almost as many silver enquiries as gold. So is silver a worthwhile investment in 2022 […]
Investing in Fractional Gold Coins – Pros and Cons

What are fractional gold coins? The term fractional gold refers to coins that have less than one troy ounce of gold in them. Most numismatists will tell you that coin releases undertaken by large mints around the world include sizes that have less than one troy ounce of gold. The one exception may be the […]
What Alloys are Commonly Mixed with Gold?

Different gold alloys The chemistry of gold makes it a unique element in the world, such that there is none like it that can be found. Many of us learnt during high school chemistry lessons that the chemical symbol of gold is Au. Gold has an atomic number of 79, which simply means that each […]
Will Silver Coins Go Up in Value?

Spotting an investment opportunity in precious metals can be lucrative if you buy early. Silver is currently very low-cost compared to gold so is seen as a bargain, providing more likelihood of future gains. The current gold-silver price ratio is 85:1. It’s interesting to note that this ratio was 47:1 some years ago. In other […]
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Gold Information

Live Gold Spot Price in Sterling. Gold is one of the densest of all metals. It is a good conductor of heat and electricity. It is also soft and the most malleable and ductile of the elements; an ounce (31.1 grams; gold is weighed in troy ounces) can be beaten out to 187 square feet (about 17 square metres) in extremely thin sheets called gold leaf.

Silver Information

Live Silver Spot Price in Sterling. Silver (Ag), chemical element, a white lustrous metal valued for its decorative beauty and electrical conductivity. Silver is located in Group 11 (Ib) and Period 5 of the periodic table, between copper (Period 4) and gold (Period 6), and its physical and chemical properties are intermediate between those two metals.