Gold Sovereigns — A Wealth Saviour?

“Never Trust Money More Than Gold”

A sentiment very dear to many people’s hearts. Sovereigns and Krugerrands are made with high quality 22 carat gold.

Whenever I’m looking to buy gold sovereigns at auction, a ‘watch’ is registered against any interesting lots. These are often coins set in a 9 carat pendant mount and a chain, the 9ct gold part often sells for less than it’s market value, giving an immediate profit.

Also, of great value are sovereigns struck at the Monarch’s jubilee, their accession to the throne, or sadly, their passing.

Uncirculated coins in their original box with paperwork are highly prized, and whilst they may cost a fraction more, are definitely worth the investment.

If gold coins aren’t your thing, then perhaps you should consider gold jewellery. However with so many fakes around probably the safest investment is in Antique Jewellery.

Hallmarks on Antique Jewellery will authenticate it as being genuine more so than modern Jewellery, which can be easier to fake. I recently read about a jeweller who bought scrap gold and was tricked out of lot of money because he didn’t have equipment sophisticated enough to test the gold as genuine, his testing equipment was very amateur.

Gold Plated items still test as gold using a magnet - beware!

The most helpful book I’ve found on the subject is: Selling Antique Jewellery: Identify and market exquisite Antique Jewellery for profit. Published on Amazon and written by Jayne Austen.

Gold Coins

What it is about these shiny gold coins that inspire us so much? Is it the fabled Spanish Conquistadors with their new found wealth of South America, or the tales of piracy of ‘Captain Jack Sparrow on the Black Pearl’ The scientific word for gold is Aurum, a Latin name meaning Shining Dawn.

Maybe, just maybe, it’s the resilience of gold when everything else decays and dies. Gold remains beautiful and just keeps shining through!

Throughout history Gold has qualities that have made it exceptionally valuable. Gold doesn’t tarnish or corrode, its colour and brightness are very robust.

Gold is one of the densest of all metals. It is a good conductor of heat and electricity. It is also soft and is malleable, it can be beaten out to in extremely thin sheets called gold leaf, embellishing the most beautiful table wear, crystal glass and decorations.

Used throughout the centuries in churches and places of worship. One of the greatest finds in all history was the gold funerary mask of Tutankhamun, which is now in the Cairo Museum.

Famously discovered by Howard Carter and the 5th Earl Lord Carnarvon, of Highclere Castle in Hampshire, England.

Gold began to serve as backing for paper-currency systems when they became widespread in the 19th century, and from the 1870s and was the basis for the World’s currency until World War I.

Gold still remains a highly regarded reserve asset, and approximately 45 percent of all the world’s gold is held by governments and central banks for this purpose. Gold is still accepted by all nations as a medium of international payment.

People fleeing war, such as refugees, and those living under oppression trust gold rather than paper money.

At 18 December 2025 the value of gold has gone up by 57.38%. It has had a spectacular increase.

As nobody can foretell the future, there’s no certainty that the price of gold will continue to rise.

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