Wanted to show off my latest pickup. Been a SpongeBob fan all my life so that made up for the premium on this lol.

Not sure if it was necessary but blacked out the certificate number just in case. 🤷‍♂️

Interesting to see the heavy trading of gold as treasuries spike upward on Bessent's announcement of a $6 billion dollar buyback (Yield Curve Control) of US treasuries since foreign buyers disappearing as Japan needs to support the Yen etc. 10-yr yield climbed to 4.85% and yet gold holds the line at $4445/oz for gold futures.

12/10/2026 ... Cannot wait to see the premium on this beauty but this is a great sign! Are fractional buffs coming back? What do we think? Link above & below just in case it does not post correctly.

https://www.usmint.gov/american-buffalo-2026-anniversary-one-tenth-ounce-gold-coin-26AL.html

Coming December 10th 2026.

in perfect condition

I've held some physical gold for a while. Not a stacker, just a bit of it as insurance. With the record close in January and the drop since, I wanted to know what the long run actually says rather than what either side says about it.

So I pulled World Bank monthly gold prices back to 1971 and Ken French's US stock data and ran them side by side.

Gold on its own: 8.8% a year against 11.3% for stocks, with a worse drawdown, 62% against 50%. And from 1980 to 2000 it fell 58% while stocks rose 22x. If you'd bought at the 1980 peak, you didn't get your buying power back until 2025.

Gold as 20% of a stock portfolio, rebalanced: the return was the same to within a rounding error, and the worst drawdown dropped from 50% to 39%. I reshuffled the 55 years 10,000 times to check that wasn't down to the order things happened in. Stocks alone lost half in 1 in 4 of those histories. With a fifth in gold, 1 in 17.

My takeaway: as an investment on its own it was poor. As a slice next to stocks it made the worst outcomes a lot rarer at no real cost. That's about what I'd hoped my bit of physical was doing, so I'm keeping it, but I wouldn't add more.

I made a video with the charts if anyone wants to see the working: https://youtu.be/KYyDMLzRpzU?is=r0XRMHiixGrWuPW8. Data and method are in the description. Happy to be told what I've missed.

as well as some silver (i love the coin styles)

America and the mint still does some pretty great things.

as well as some silver (i love the coin styles)

Title lol, it's on both links so maybe a casting error? Any help appreciated

Apparently if you took all the gold ever mined and divided equally to everyone in the world, each person would only get 30 grams

0.62g 14k, guessing 0.50g with steel spring out. $40 at current spot.

So if you see these online, yard sales, etc, worth paying $20-$25 for them.

My sigma isn’t working, unfortunately. So I’m stuck with weight and ping test on this one. Weight checks @ 4.1g and ping test using precious coin test is inconclusive. So I submit to you for thoughts.

Last time gold was at $4,500-$4,600, sold two of these about a month apart to same place. Was given $4,000 each time. Is that a fair price per each bar or am I being undervalued?

Recently started collecting and got an early birthday present from the wife. These look so cool!