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>>18596597
>almost triple spot value
How rare is it, and how much are other people buying for. Otherwise, if you just want the metal, European Mint or any other place is VAT free and close-ish to spot, though I can't attest for any US/AUS sites

>>18596646
I'd always advise to maintain a Gold on the slight high end of the ratio (I'm personally 75/15/10 G/S/Cry), but it's totally up to you. As long as you diversify to a decent extent so you're always on at least one bump for when you want to liquidate, you should be fine. With buying property, I'd just say to remind you that the market doesn't care *when* you want to invest. The reason we diversify is that, if you want to buy a house however your main holds are currently in dip, you're either forced to sell in a dip (suboptimal) or effectively have that money be rendered null until it invariably picks up (so you're left with whatever isn't in a dip for the house). It's why Gold is usually pointed to as the best investment (since it never really dips, again, outside of correcting itself after the markets begin to recover post-crash - which is when anybody with Gold should be shorted anyways to simply acquire more gold with the money gain by buying the same amount you profited once it's back in a trough and growing, chugging again).
Platinum is the second rate Silver in economic terms, but the fact it's in a sizable dip coming into a crash means it's something I'd be interested in, but the fact it's Silver's little brother (VAT included) means that at best you can equal it in a ratio

If you want a summary, Gold is the safest asset you can get and will maintain spending power outside of the (very obvious) time after you should have (very obviously) sold it. Silver lags behind Gold, thus is at a peak while Gold is correcting (meaning you're not offpeak). Platinum is another option for if you want to diversify from Silver as your backup for non-Gold, plus it's major dip means it's growth margin is abnormally high

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