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Originally Posted by aschen

Collecting gold coins, many of which have prices dominated by metal not numismatic value is a fun hobby. For example common date pre 1933 us gold or British sovereign.

Enjoyable hobby with a lot to learn and as a side benefit after a few years you might find your collection is bigger and more valuable than you thought.

If I thought that I could buy old gold coins at the price of just gold, I might do that for one or two or a couple. Are you saying that most don't have some sort of premium added on top of the gold value?