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Precious Metals Investing for Beginners

Investing in Precious Metals

Welcome to the SchiffGold Guide to Investing in Metals. The aim of this section of our website is to educate both prospective and current precious metal investors on the gold and silver markets, physical products, industry trends, and more.

SchiffGold Beginner's Guide to Investing in Metals

To get started, we recommend that new investors click the banner to the right to read James Anderson's Beginner's Guide to Investing in Metals. This is a stand-alone piece that will get all beginners up to speed.

Alternatively, scroll down to find topics that catch your eye, or view our four product categories below:


Silver Bullion
Gold Bullion
Platinum Bullion
Copper Bullion

Buying Physical Metals

Featured Article: FDR’s Silver Nationalization 1934
A large portion of gold bullion buyers have either heard of or know about President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1933 Executive Order 6102 when the US government outlawed large private gold bullion ownership. Many silver bullion buyers are yet unaware of the President Roosevelt administration’s Executive Order 6814 which occurred over one year later. Shortly after...

Learning how to buy gold and other precious metals can feel like a journey for some. How much of one’s savings should be in gold and silver? What types of gold to purchase (coins, bullion, bars, other)? These and other questions relating to the purchase of physical precious metals are all important.

But why even bother with physical gold when so many other investment opportunities exist? Because gold is the ultimate monetary insurance policy. No other asset offers the same level of security, privacy, and liquidity. The value of gold is determined by the free market and does not depend on governments, banks, or stock markets.

Countries around the world face unprecedented levels of sovereign debt, and this balance will come due. However, governments like the United States are obsessed with just one solution to their debt problems: currency debasement, also known as inflation. The US is on autopilot towards the permanent destruction of the dollar with its inflationary monetary policies. Buying gold is one of the best and easiest ways to protect yourself from that destruction and grow your wealth at the same time. Click here to learn the ABC’s of buying gold.

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