what is better to have gold stocks or coins or bullion?

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1. i think the stocks have more leverage
2. coins, the older ones are worth a lot
3. coin far and away, in my book- uniform and small quantity, as opposed to bullion, and stocks are just paper, not gold.
4. Stocks.
5. Here are considerations. If you won coin or bullion, it can always get stolen. If you own a great enough quantity, then the cost of storage takes away from your investment profits. If you own stocks, their value has only a rough correlation to the spot price of gold. In a down market, the stock can drop more than the spot price and stay down there for quite awhile. MY ANSWER: If you are not talking larges amounts, then store coins in your safe deposit box. (and price them around and by as cheap as you can...prices vary from dealer to dealer)
6. Go to Yahoo Finance and check out Central Fund of Canada -- symbol CEF. It is a closed end fund that owns physical gold and silver. It is safer than owning companies or coins. Caveat emptor!