I will start off by saying that I am no expert when it comes to investing. Over time I have purchase gold, silver, and platnium. Most are coins but I also have purchased a few silver ten ounce bars.
In this post I will talk about one of my favorite purchases which is a 2006 Gold Buffalo graded by NGC as MS70.
As a child I loved the Indian head buffalo nickels which were produced by the United States Mints from 1913-1938 with the exception of 1922, 1932, and 1933 when no nickels were produced. I collected many over the years but all of them seemed to be very worn and the design hard to see. In 2006 I heard the United States government was going to release a 24 karat gold $50 gold piece that weighed one troy ounce, and used a desin similar to the original buffalo nickels. The release finally came and I was so excited about seeing the design, I had to have one.
2006 was important to me as I was graduating from a trade school and figured I would purchase one of these beautiful coins for myself as a graduation gift. I watched as the coins where released and found this first strike ms-70 coin for sale for about $610. At the time it seemed a little steep but gold prices were about $575 an ounce at the time. They always say gold goes up and in this case almost 20 years later these coins are going for about $2,400 so I would say that it was a good investment and gold did seem to keep going up.
I have recently purchased Goldback bills and here are a few of the one Goldback bills I have.
I tried getting a few different angles of the Goldbacks because they are beautiful and so shiny but the pictures don't do them justice.
I learned about Goldbacks from a post I read from 
Goldbacks are a bill that is printed with gold instead of having the gold back the money as United States Money used to be these have the gold backing them in each bill.
If you interested in theses go to goldback.com or check your favorite bullion site. The one thing I like about these is that to buy a gold coin will cost over $100 for the smallest of coins. The Goldbacks can be purchase as a single Goldback for under $5. You can purchase Goldbacks in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 25, or 50.
So if your interested in buying gold and worried that it will not go up in value I felt the same way buying my first gold coins. If the gold coins seem a little to expensive to start out maybe the Goldback bills are the way to go. The Goldbacks are new and have only been around a few years so we will have to see how the return on them is over the coming years.
Thanks for reading and hope you have a great holiday season.