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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rono, post: 1112942, member: 6492&quot;]Howdy,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I don&#039;t believe you can with a 401.&nbsp; I know you can with an IRA but you have to deal with a custodian and it&#039;s a royal pain.&nbsp; Much better to do what cloudsweeper and the others have suggested and buy securities for your 401 and keep your coins separate.&nbsp; In my case, I have my coins and physical bullion stash AND have a huge chunk of my 457 invested in various precious metals securities.&nbsp;&nbsp; With a 401, you have deferred taxes and that&#039;s key if you want to buy one of the bullion ETF&#039;s.&nbsp; This is because the bullion ETF&#039;s like GLD and SLV are taxed at the 28% collectible rate (ouch).&nbsp; For a taxable account that needs some real bullion, check into CEF Central Fund of Canada.&nbsp; It&#039;s a closed end fund but have never had an adverse tax determination so are still taxed at 15%.&nbsp; It holds both gold and silver bullion at about a 55/45 split.&nbsp; I own it.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now, precious metals mutual funds normally consist of all mining stocks and no bullion.&nbsp; Tocqueville Gold TGLDX is an exception in that it owns miners of all the metals like silver and platinum but also holds around 7% in gold bullion.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Nice plays that I like are more of the precious metals ilk than the pure play gold funds.&nbsp; TGLDX, UNWPX (U.S. Global), even Vanguard VGPMX.&nbsp; Nice ETF&#039;s are GLD (gold bullion), SLV (silver bullion), GDX (gold miners), GDXJ (junior miners), SIL (silver miners).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>just some thoughts and as a disclaimer I own everything mentioned and also SLW (silver wheaton).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>peace,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>rono[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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