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Like most industries, the coin-collecting industry is filled with jargon and technical language. This is fine if you’ve been involved with the industry as a business or as a hobby for years, but it becomes more frustrating if you’re new to the business. Or maybe you’ve been involved in the past, but it’s been a few years since you’ve thought about gold or coins, making you a bit rusty on your terminology.

If you’re unfamiliar with the terms and phrases being thrown around regarding coin collecting, it can seem like an incredibly complicated business that’s impossible to get involved with because there’s too much to learn . . . .

Each of the last three years have begun with gold rallies of over 10%. The stage is set for another such move in 2018. Are you prepared? . . . .

After another disappointing trading session, one bank sees gold ending the week on a positive note, with prices possibly moving up to $1,300 an ounce if the Federal Reserve hints at weak inflation on Wednesday . . . .

Precious metals specialist, Ted Butler, is nothing but forthright about his views on the big investment banks, notably JP Morgan as top of his list of the ‘baddest dudes’ in the sector.  To this he has added the financial sector’s other frequently recognized ‘bad dude’ – Goldman Sachs – accusing them both of playing the markets in such volumes that they totally dominate them and frequently calling them out in what he describes as ‘criminal’ manipulation’ of these markets . . . .

Silver Prices take the Final Dip – Beware of the Classic Bear Trap . . . .

One of the most notable events in Russia’s precious metals market calendar is the annual “Russian Bullion Market” conference. Formerly known as the Russian Bullion Awards . . . .

Although not liquid, these investments can be enjoyable and maybe profitable . . . .

As we reported both here and here, gold is the answer going forward. How we the people will access physical gold or if we will be able to access physical gold is really the only remaining question . . . .

Gold aficionados may remember Graham Birch who managed the Blackrock Gold and General Fund in its glory days before he gave it up to go farming – someone who got his timing spot on.  But although he may now be a farmer, Graham has kept closely attuned to the gold sector and his views are well worth listening to – particularly with respect to gold bullion . . . .

Last week Russia’s Central Bank First Deputy Governor Sergei Shvetsov said Russians own gold bullion and their central bank is adding to its gold reserves in order to “beef up national security" . . . .