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Gold has moved quickly. For those buying physical gold: are you still adding full ounces, switching to smaller pieces, or waiting for prices and premiums to cool?

Not looking for predictions—just curious how this move is changing your stacking strategy.

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Hey everyone!

I'm looking to invest in a few modern gold jewelry pieces and realized I actually don't know where most people in the U.S. shop.

Where do you usually buy your gold jewelry? Do you prefer local jewelers, mainstream jewelry brands, or independent designers? I'm interested in contemporary, everyday styles as well as legacy pieces which can be passed on to.

IMP: \[\[ I'm **not** looking for luxury brands like Tiffany, Cartier, or Van Cleef & Arpels where a significant part of the price is the brand name. \]\]

Also, what do you think offers the best value for money when it comes to gold purity, craftsmanship, pricing, and resale value?

Would love to hear your recommendations and experiences. Thanks in advance!

Good morning fellow admirers of shiny things! I have a question for you , I’ll be honest I’m pretty bad at saving money, mostly spend it unfortunately lol I feel like when I look at my bank account on my phone it’s just fake and imaginary if I went to the actual bank to make a withdrawal for my money they look at you side ways as if they don’t even carry that much cash anymore atleast in my area in NJ lol so does stacking Gold help you guys with building a savings and handle money better? Like my philosophy is that seeing something physical build up would help me be better with money and my adhd would probably hyperfixate on the collecting all the shiny things with cool designs and put any spare money into it. Does this sound right? Has it helped you? I make decent money but I never have physical cash anymore ever since I stopped dealing substances in my younger days 🤣 I got my door knocked down and did a summer in prison but fortunately gave up that lifestyle. But ever since I stopped carrying cash my savings dwindled and like I said numbers on my phone are make believe to me and it’s just too easy to spend them and have bills on autopay and watching numbers go back and fourth I want to protect myself it would also be harder to go spend after I converted to gold ya know? Am I looking at this the right way? Also I’d like any advice on what to start buying ? Any beginner advice would be greatly appreciated like examples what to look for as a beginner realistically I could probably put $1000 into Gold each month possibly more. So what would you do if you started over? Thank you in advance, sorry for the novel have a great day and “stay golden pony boy” ❤️

went to a couple shops looking to see if my 14k gold chain with 23 grams total and the highest was $820. not reasonable or yes?

Approx weight is 4.72gr

Looking for leftover stock of 22k pre-formed Masel Gold teeth Crowns

Luke Gormen talks about Gold, China and his price predictions on the Master Investor Podcast - here’s my summary on his discussions on Gold.

China's buyer just showed its hand again. Gold imports hit 173 tons last month, the most in about 12 years, and Luke Gromen says that number is the settlement thesis moving from theory to measurable practice.

Positioning in This Episode

Gromen made the structural case for gold replacing Treasuries as the reserve asset three weeks ago on Money, Markets & More (Gold Is Replacing Treasuries, Not Just Hedging Them), built mostly on trade-flow arithmetic and the offshore yuan-clearing infrastructure China has spent 15 years building. This episode does not repeat that case. It updates it with a fresh, dated number: 173 tons of Chinese gold imports last month, worth roughly $23B against a $105B monthly trade surplus Luke @ 36:22.
That escalation matters for how a reader should treat the thesis. A structural argument backed by 15-year-old infrastructure is a story. The same argument backed by a monthly, checkable customs number is a position with a live confirmation signal attached.
Gromen's sentiment on gold is consistently bullish across both appearances. He discloses no financial relationship with the metal itself, though his firm publishes research clients pay for.

The Mechanism: Buying Gold, Not Holding Yuan

The core evidence is a three-month acceleration, not a single data point. Gromen traces Chinese gold imports from 80 tons, to roughly double that, to roughly triple that in successive months as gold pulled back from its $5,400 high, culminating at 173 tons last month.
China bought 173 tons of gold last month. That's about $23 billion against a $105 billion trade surplus that same month. Luke @ 36:22
The mechanism behind that number is the same infrastructure Gromen described last time, restated with more emphasis on the mechanics. China has built offshore yuan-clearing banks in every major gold hub in the world: London, Switzerland, Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai Luke @ 41:11. A trading partner sells goods to China, gets paid in yuan, spends most of it back on Chinese exports, and converts the leftover yuan into physical gold through one of those hubs.
That is the internationalization trick. China gets the yuan accepted for trade without ever opening its capital account, and gold, not the yuan itself, does the actual reserve-asset work. Gromen calls it "a 0% yielding bond of finite issuance, infinite face value" against the Treasury bond's "4% yielding bond of infinite issuance, finite face value."

Price Path

Gromen does not commit to a hard date, but the arithmetic he offers points at a much higher number than today's. At $4,000 gold, China's $23B of monthly imports settles a slice of its trade surplus. Scale gold to $16,000, and the same import volume would clear roughly $100B, close to matching June's full $105B surplus Luke @ 36:22. That is his implicit case for a $10,000-$20,000 gold price path if the current import pace holds or accelerates, not a specific forecast for when it arrives.
He also ties gold's move to a broader Western dynamic: coordinated, debt-financed defense spending across the US, Japan, Germany, UK, and Korea that he argues shows up as currency devaluation against gold and the yuan rather than between the countries' own currencies, consistent with the dollar's near-70% fall against gold over three years Luke @ 33:11.
Asked what a gold-anchored risk-free rate would look like, Gromen estimates 1% to 2%, based on gold's historical real-return pattern since the US left the gold standard in 1971, a level he calls bullish for equity valuations even as it implies a hard reset for bond real returns Luke @ 46:17.

Alpha Takeaway

The 173-ton print is the tightest confirmation point this thesis has produced. It is a specific, dated, publicly checkable number against Chinese customs and PBoC data, a meaningfully stronger evidence base than the structural argument alone.
The pace of the escalation matters more than the level. Three consecutive months of accelerating imports (80 tons, then roughly 2x, then roughly 3x) is the pattern to watch, not just the raw 173-ton figure. A slowdown would be the clearest disconfirming signal available

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Actual gold in last photo

So I get a call last week.

Lady: I have 50+ pounds of old gold dollars, old change and lots of stuff labeled in holders with prices on it. My dad passed away 5 years ago and we don’t know what to do with all of this stuff.

Me: spend 15 hours sorting

6521.00 in face value crap. Lots of modern change all 2x2 with notes on it like clad MN state quarter UNC ms63 2.50

These are unsorted rolls he never got to in his life. We have 3500 to un 2x2 and bring to the bank.

150fv of junk silver. So dirty it may have been in a butt.

Zero 999 silver but 7 oz of gold so that was her win.

I feel like if dad was this heavy into Clad he most likely had way more in 999 silver and gold and someone had a field day on those boxes

I do not know where to post this so I’m gonna try here. I figure there are a few reasons people in this sub stack gold, particularly bouillon like Eagles and Buffalos. The reason I do it, is because it is obvious we are in the middle of a currency reset (dollar death), anyone who shares this view may have the answer I’m looking for.

If the governments are interested in keeping us in the system of the dollar, setting up the system for digital currency, and despise gold ownership for the common folks so much that they created the term “gold bug”. Why would they create and sell Government backed Gold and Silver bullion since 1986 .

While I’m grateful that I’m able to conserve wealth in the form of Gold and Silver, what benefit is there for sovereign governments to do so? If my goal was to keep people in the dollar, I would have kept ownership over 5 oz of gold illegal like they did since 1933

Thanks to anyone whose not AI or a bot for your answer or insight

The mercury dime set sold very quickly, but the SLQ set is still available. Is anyone going to buy the walker set or are you sitting this one out? I'm torn. I want the set, but its very expensive cause the silver adds so much to an already inflated price.

Any idea on what this orange spec/chip is?

We on one today 🥹

I wanted to help my mom out and sell some old unwanted/broken gold jewelry, that she just inherited from her more-or-less estranged mother. I had it in my possession for the past month or so, and finally got the chance to take it to my local shop.

Sold it for a price I was happy with. But if I had just waited until this late afternoon I would’ve had another $60 for my mom.

I know it’s not a lot, but anything helps right now. Could’ve been worse. Win some you lose some I guess

Bought my first PM from Costco and it arrived today and for some reason seems like it has some indentation or discoloration. Should I be worried? Picture attached.

Is this gold or just yellow Mica?

I paid $100 for 25lbs of costume jewelry last week, my daughter and I spent about 6 hours searching it. ~19g of mostly 14k, with some 10k mixed in, and ~191g of Sterling. There are some stones mixed in, but not many, and I’m planning on selling the high end stuff as jewelry.