One common way to invest in gold is with gold bullion. This is the most cost-effective way to invest in physical gold. In contrast to gold coins and jewelry, gold bullion does not require any design work at all.
Any kind of physical gold comes with some potential dangers. Robbery is usually a possibility, especially when it involves valuable materials like gold. Second, it takes time for liquidity to arrive. The value of your gold will be lower than the gold price today if you want to sell it quickly.

One of two unit types is produced when gold is processed: gold coins or ingots (ingots are typically referred to as bars). The coins can be used for circulating (mostly in the 19th and early 20th centuries), investing (gold American Eagle, Krugerrand, Canadian Maple Leaf), collecting (proof coins, commemorative, and other non-circulating legal tender coinage), or as a near-money alternative currency system.

Rare coin investors make up a very small percentage of the stock market's investors, despite the fact that there are more than a million active American coin collectors. However, due primarily to the Internet, a growing number of middle-class men and women would likely turn to the rare coin market in order to safeguard their wealth in the event that gold was to break $1,000 and silver would reach $17 per ounce. The Wall Street executive and the Kansan farmer, who would never be able to go into a coin shop and probably never will, can now easily find gold and silver on the Internet.