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Message:: [QUOTE="doug444, post: 2000457, member: 38849"]You were on the right track until "...or have an investment firm store it for you..." Like Tulving??  You...need...gold...in...your...personal...possession!!  Look how many of the banks and brokerages and financial firms have paid multi-million dollar fines for various scams against their customers and colleagues.  When the crunch comes, who do you think gets the preferential treatment?  Not some prole with 6 ounces, that's for sure.  It's the mob boss or the money-laundering guy that mails the CEO of the investment firm a severed human ear and says, "...you'd better cough up ALL our gold NOW -- you've got 48 hours or else...WE are at the top of your list, sucker!" The SDB is unfortunately the "best" option for many of us.  I personally think there's about a very small chance of confiscation of PM's in my lifetime, and/or if not confiscated, at least a prolonged period where you can't get at your PM's when you'll need them the most.  All this is impossible to predict, I'm telling you what I believe.  If I didn't believe it, I wouldn't buy PM's in the first place, I'd use that money for gorgeous collector coins, U.S. and Canadian cents and half-cents and CWT and HT tokens like I aspired to, some 50 years ago.[/QUOTE]