The only intelligent gift for Christmas.

Our life is full of surprises without any exception. Only, we don’t recognize them all. Invariably, the few surprises that we identify as miracles are caused by us.

About three years before, I wrote a blog post in one of my blogs about the value of buying gold in small quantities on every occasion such as Christmas, Thanksgiving Day etc.

When we buy gold even in its smallest denominations (1 gram in India), though its weight will never increase, its value will surprise you over the years of its confinement in a lovely gift box.

One West Indian old woman who happened to read that blog post of mine, took the cue in the right spirit and bought her first gold coin from the United States Gold Bureau, home to buy the world’s best and purest gold coins.

The sight of it spurred her to save vigorously and bought gold coins at the every right gold buying opportunity. This will be her 4^th Christmas since she first bought her gold coin.

With a genuine note of gratitude, she emailed me yesterday wishing me happy holidays and informed me she just bought her first gold bar after selling all her gold coins.

Who gave us gold?

I read in Reader’s Digest long back that once upon a time, the gold miners were paid a bag of rock each week as salary. They were tempted to accept in on the promise that it might contain gold to make them rich over night.

Is it so?

For a passionate bullion investors and people like me who buy gold coins occasionally, this news might come as a shock. Actually, we are all so oblivious about how gold is extracted from the rocks and the earth. How we are expected to know the toils of the real miners who risk their lives to light our lives?

I think even the gold vendors are not so much aware of how gold is mined, purified before minted into shapes of coins and ingots.

Now, with the advent of powerful earthmovers and conveyor belts, the earth containing gold ore is easily excavated and brought up to the surface much quickly.

Next Million Dollar Coin.

Like all naïve people who believe that only ancient coins are considered rare coins and are investment worthy, I too missed a valuable investment opportunity.

Take for example, this exquisite 2009 Ultra High Relief Gold Coin. Do you know what this coin is called as by seasoned precious metal investors? It is called as “Next Million Dollar Coin”.

The US Gold Bureau has published a fine article about this beautiful Double Eagle Gold Coin in its website.

The US Gold Bureau gave me new insight in to rare gold coins that might have been minted only last year (2009) but still can be called as rare coins due to limited supply. Through their gold monitor newsletter, timely tips to buy gold coins will be given.

Unfortunately, I could not buy this coin but my relative who is living in San Jose has bought this rare gold coin. What a treasure!