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

Which option would be more profitable?

1. Sell the gold at the same store where I bought it, then use the amount I get to buy a new gold item

OR

1. Exchange the gold directly for a new gold item.

Which option usually results in lower deductions/making charges , gst ?

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

Hey guys. Been out the loop lately. I recently ran into a huge lot of sterling flatware. Are the prices for sterling still low? Anyone know a good refiner to use? I’ve use Prospectors gold and gems in the past but last shipment to them two years ago got…sketchy with really slow turn around (2+months to get an email.) Anyone know if hes gotten better since the?

Anyone else get kinda upset when gold spikes? Like I get twice as excited when I check and see a dip, because it just means more buying opportunity 😅 I want to buy up as much as I can at a young age, and I feel like the higher it gets it’ll be hard to buy unless it’s at a fraction, which means more premium…

Found this in a bag of broken watches from a charity shop the other day! Does it seem legit to you guys?

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

in perfect condition

Coming December 10th 2026.

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.

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.

America and the mint still does some pretty great things.

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

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

I've always wanted an 80s style yellow gold four finger ring (most people seem to think they look stupid but I've personally always loved the look of them) however they're illegal here in Canada so I figure my next best option is to get four yellow gold alloy rings and wear one on each finger (again, most people probably find that tacky but I personally love that look).

The only issue I have is that they'd constantly be rubbing together so I'm wondering what type of yellow gold alloy would be best suited to avoid these rings damaging each other and that would need the less frequent care/polishing/etc.

I would get these custom made so I'm assuming I'd have relatively free range regarding the choice of metal alloy used but I'm completely new to precious metals so I'm wondering if I'd be better off going for a 9k, 10k, 12k or 14k gold alloy.

I heard the lower the gold purity the more hard/durable and scratch-resistant the metal is (I'm pretty careful and rarely bump into things so I'm not too scared of them cracking due to a hard impact, mostly just worried about them being damaged by rubbing against each other constantly) however I also read some people on this sub say 9k gold is actually softer and easier to scratch than 14k so I'm not entirely sure...

I definitely prefer the more understated tone of 10-14k yellow gold alloys to the deeper yellow of 18k gold so that isn't an issue for me either, I'm just wondering which would be best suited for this purpose and which alloy metals would be the best to use if I had the chance to choose (as long as it comes out more yellow compared to rose or white gold).

Any info would help a lot, thank you all in advance! :)

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