Gold

Gold, presently very much in the news, has been on a steady upward trend for the past three years. While there are plenty of outlets buying and selling gold, where investors can err badly is the price they either pay for it, or sell it for. Most retail outlets offering to buy, or sell, gold offer disastrous rates. While the proliferation of recent online websites offering the same service also present significant price-risk and purity factors.

As long established auctioneers we have served our clients well in the buying and selling of gold over the years - either in coin or bullion form. We guarantee our sellers that we will get the international spot price, or close to, for their consignments. And our buyers can be safe in the knowledge that our estimates are very fair and the gold we offer is  tested.

Oddly, now is a good time to both buy and sell gold. The economy recovered, Coronavirus in the rearview mirror - facts will see the gold price settle back to a gently upward undulating value graph over time. As before, for hundreds of years.

Gold is a tremendous investment vehicle, a solid proven hedge against inflation. A simple example illustrating this point. About twelve years ago a lady came in to us with an old Edwardian oak rolltop desk she wished to sell in one of our antique auctions. We took it in. While setting it up for the public viewing a few days later we had to remove the top from the base. There, hidden behind a drawer, a thick rolled up bunch of old Irish £50 punt notes, to the sum of £7,300. I rang the lady to tell her what we had found. Delighted, the following day she called by to collect the most fortunate find.

As we were chatting she told me that shortly before her father, a local shopkeeper and publican, had died, he had hidden this money behind the drawer for ‘safekeeping’. While she was over the moon for us to discover it, she had unfortunately lost out badly. Inflation had done its dirty work. When her father died in 1976 the then present-day spending power of that money was e52,000. Had her father instead possessed the foresight to buy the equivalent in gold, £7,300 punts of gold in 1976 purchased from my predecessor, this sum would have gotten him 59oz of gold, equal to 3.6lb weight (approximately 5.2 square inches in volume). Had this been instead placed behind that drawer today it would been worth e116,150 for his daughter, or himself had he lived. To spend any way they pleased.

Not to sound too much like a financial advisor, but over any length of time cash dies. And gold prospers. This has been the trend since time immemorial. Gold makes sense - it's a straight-forward, internationally traded, liquid commodity with it's own daily, internationally publicly listed, and followed, selling price. With plenty of people to buy it, and no third party risk.

If you have gold to sell please contact us. Should you wish to buy gold please contact us. Either-way, as buyer or seller, we absolutely guarantee you the very best price achievable.

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