The Advantages of American Eagle Gold Coins

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If you’re ready to start collecting gold as a way to meet your financial goals for the future, putting your money into bullion coins might be an excellent idea. One of the most popular types of bullion coins, particularly for collectors in the United States, is the American Eagle gold coin. These beautiful coins are minted and guaranteed by the U.S. government, and they are made strictly from American gold. The advantages don’t stop there, though.

American Eagle gold coins are also great because they come in many sizes, which is convenient for collectors and investors who don’t have the cash outlay to put into a roll of one-ounce coins or for people who simply want to collect something that’s a little different from the norm. The coins come in one-half, one-fourth, and one-tenth ounce sizes, and each size coin is guaranteed to have a particular amount of pure gold in it.

These coins are also convenient for collectors because they aren’t quite as fragile as other bullion coins. This is because the coins are twenty-two karat gold. This means that the gold in the coins has been alloyed with other metals, namely silver and copper, to create a stronger, more stable coin. Unlike twenty-four karat gold, these coins stand up to moving and handling without getting many scratches, dents, or dings.

Besides this, these coins are absolutely beautiful. They feature Liberty Walking, one of the most popular coin designs in history. They show lots more detail, too, than you will get with a normal coin, since gold is softer than the metal normally used to mint coins. If you want an even more beautiful coin, you can look for proof and high relief coins, which are stamped multiple times with a special process that leaves them shinier and more detailed looking.

These coins are, of course, an excellent way to own something beautiful and valuable. They are good investments simply because they are guaranteed to have a particular level of gold in them, so they have a high meltdown value, especially in today’s market. Plus, these coins are legal tender, which makes them easier to move across country and state borders, and which may even get you some tax advantages when you’re buying them. All around, the American Gold Eagle coins are an excellent investment for people with many types of gold investing goals.

Kijang Emas Bullion Coin

It was launched by the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad in 2001. Kijang Emas is available in three different weight, which are 1 oz, 1/2 oz and 1/4 oz with 99.99% gold purity.

The purchase and reselling price of Kijang Emas is determined by the prevailing international gold market price.

Kijang Emas is distributed by Maybank Berhad at selected branches.

Weight	Purity	Standard Weight	Diameter
1 oz	99.99%	31.105 gram	37.00 mm
1/2 oz	99.99%	15.550 gram	28.00 mm
1/4 oz	99.99%	7.780 gram	22.00 mm

1 Troy OZ

price: RM200 gold purity : 99.99% standard weight : 31.105g diameter  : 37.00mm

1/2 Troy ounces	1/4 Troy ounces
price: RM100 gold purity : 99.99% standard weight : 15.550g diameter  : 28.00mm The design on the obverse of the Kijang Emas depicts a barking deer ("kijang") in its natural habitat in the Malaysian jungle. Also appearing on the obverse are the words BANK NEGARA MALAYSIA, for the central bank of Malaysia as the issuer of the coins; KIJANG EMAS; the weight; gold purity; and the year of minting.	price: RM50 gold purity : 99.99% standard weight : 7.780g diameter  : 22.00mm The reverse side features the hibiscus, the national flower of Malaysia together with the denomination face value, as well as the words BANK NEGARA MALAYSIA in Jawi (Arabic) script.

Islamic Gold Investment

 From http://shariah-fortune.com

 How to preserve your money? You can do this by buying tangible assets - we call it real assets. You see we're not talking about paper assets like derivates or whatever artificial financial products nobody understands. We're talking about assets which have survived history - real assets.

One of these assets is gold. Why gold? Because it's a scarce, limited resource. You can not increase or multiply it as you like. That's why gold preserves your money and is what we call a real asset. In the Roman Empire you could have bought a tunic (roman outer garment) for a piece of gold. Nowadays you can buy a tailor-made suit for an ounce of gold. Gold keeps it's value even or especially in insecure times. That's simply the point.

So how do you invest in gold? Basically there are 4 options:

1.     You buy it physically, meaning you go to a bank or a gold shop and buy pieces of gold. Especially when you buy larger amounts this could be a security problem or at least leaves you with storage costs.  Buying physical gold is the easiest way for Muslims, because this is absolutely fine with Shariah-principles as you're in possession of the gold. 
2.          To avoid storage costs you could go for a gold ETF-investment (ETF, Exchange Traded Fund). This means you buy shares of an equity fund, which buys and stores the physical gold for you and other investors. If you for example invest USD 1000 in an gold ETF then they buy gold for USD 1000 (less management fees and costs of the fund) and store it in a secured and insured place. This is easy to do. You just have to go to your bank or broker to buy.
3. When buying a gold-ETF Muslims have to take care of buying an Shariah-compliant    ETF. There's just a few we found which is Al Bogari Islamic Gold, Dubai Gold Securities (DGS) trading on Nasdaq Dubai.
4.  One more option is to invest in gold mines, meaning you buy shares of a gold exploration company. This leaves you with the risk that sometimes the market value of the share is not related to the gold price. 

• For example if the management of the company is doing a bad job then the price of your share could go down, even if the gold price is rising.

Buying shares of goldmines is probably the most challenging investment for Muslims. It involves more efforts for Muslims to invest in gold mines. You have to check carefully if the company is Shariah-compliant. And many companies are not complying with Shariah-principles as they e.g. are financed in conventional ways (no interest is allowed,  usury), etc... If you want to dive into it there is an article we found for you: Shariah-compliance for mining stocks. 

All 3 investment possibilities are in common that you can sell your investment quite easiliy in case you think of cashing in.

Whichever way you chose it is important that you do not put all eggs in one basket. It's not advisable to invest all your money in gold. Economic books talk about a share of around 10-15 % of your assets.