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Posted by slang on April 5, 2010
Half baht 1860 King Rama Thailand/Siam Rare Coin. Source:http://coinsforsale.blogspot.com
This is a rare coin : 2 Salu’ng (½ Baht), 1860 from the Kingdom of Siam or Thailand, Rama IV reign (Phra Chom Kiao ‘Mongkut’, 1851 – 1868). It weighs 8.12g (heavier variety) and 22mm. Note that the denomination is indicated by number of stars outside chakra; 4 Stars = 1/2 Baht
Posted by slang on October 6, 2009
[ see another article on whether to invest in gold coin or not}
If you have not make up your mind on the type of coin collecting you would like to start and still view that the gold price will still go up and up, it might be good to do include some gold coins into your overall investment portfolio ( of course you need to have the financial resources to do so particularly we have so many types of gold coins to select from:-
Chandra Gupta Dynasty Gold coin
Gold Coin Ancient India Kushan
American Eagle Gold coin
Krugerrand Gold coin
And here’s a bit of updates on the current gold price:-
Very recently, the price of gold has struck an all-time high as the green –back dollar fell on a news report that Arab states had launched secret moves with China and Russia to stop using the greenback for oil trading. They would instead switch “to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC), including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar,
Gold hit 1,045.00 dollars per ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange in late trades.
Further rumors from the press and precious metal analysts said that dollar weakness appeared to be related to reported secret talks about oil being priced in a basket of currencies including gold rather than the dollar. All in all it has added concerns about the future role of the dollar in international financial markets.
Incidentally gold has been viewed as a good investment vehicle mainly attributed to the following reasons:
Posted by slang on September 16, 2009
Investment can be in many forms: the conventional equity, bonds fixed income, real estate and others. Nowadays, financial experts also tend to advocate investing in the rare coins markets as another alternative investment.
They felt that the “ rare coins” market/investments represents both opportunity for attractive returns and low correlations with other assets. This is because rare coins market have the characteristics of supply being constrained and any growing interest in the market should support rising rare coins prices or value over the medium to long term period.
Experts advocate the following benefits in rare coins investment:
Diversification
Rare coins market prices normally reflect low correlation with other investments and in some cases offer more liquidity than other like equity, bond, real estates and other conventional investment.
Inflation hedge
Normally when a country get more developed and people get affluence, prices of such rare coins should rise in line with general economic growth and inflation.
Good potential long-term returns
Rare coins prices generally generate for their investors good attractive returns. Experts advocate that for any long term collections (50 years plus) compound annual returns of between 8.7%-10.5% can be achieved
Short term returns also attractive
With careful selection of the rare coin portfolio investing in particular gold and silver coins, experts find good attractive annual returns.
A growing market
It might seem to be a surprise to some that rare coins divestments in fact has gain much liquidity mainly attributed to interest in the rare coins market has increased over recent years. In fact some even consider rare coins market as liquid alternative investment to help them to diversify their overall investment portfolios in order to achieve potentially higher returns and lower overall portfolio volatility.
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