

Using a simple “self-directed” IRA, you can invest in true physical gold and silver and still enjoy these tax benefits. investors choose to purchase precious metals in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRA), because of their tax-free or tax-deferred status. All of these factors combined lead us to sleep better owning gold and silver.įor a more detailed review, see Mike Maloney’s top 10 reasons to own gold and silver hit video. Not only that, but we’ve also observed that throughout history the world forms a new monetary system every 30-40 years, meaning we’re overdue for a change. Since 1971, all the world’s currencies are now fiat-not one is backed by precious metals any longer, ending millennia of tradition. Often in rapid and spectacular declines that have sent precious metals prices spiraling up in response.

In today’s global financial reality of high personal, business and national debts, we believe especially so.īacked by nothing but debt, all “fiat” currencies in history not still in circulation have eventually ended with no value. They also have immense potential to increase in value as speculative assets. Gold and silver are not just safe havens. All valid reasons to invest in gold and silver, but not the only ones. Others, for insurance against a future stock market crisis, or just to diversify their portfolio. The swastika appeared on the standard coinage: the Reichspfenning, 2 Reichspfenning, 5 Reichspfenning, 10 Reichspfenning, 50 Reichspfenning (1938-1944), and 5 Reichsmark (1936-1939).Many investors choose to purchase physical gold and silver as protection against inflation (the loss of value of a currency, or why a candy bar is no longer a penny, a nickel, or a quarter). Coins were produced in Berlin (mintmark A), Vienna (B), Munich (D), Muldenhutten (E), Stuttgart (F), Karlsruhe (G), and Hamburg (J). The Nazis began minting coins in 1933, with the resolution of the Enabling Act, when Adolf Hitler took power and become Chancellor of Germany. The key coins in the set are the 1934 5 Mark Schiller and the 5 and 10 Pfennig Military Issues of 19. Each denomination is represented with most being relatively easy to locate except the zinc 1, 5, and 10 Reichspfenning. There are also two varieties, the 5 Reichsmark Potsdam Church, with and without date, and the 5 Reichsmark Hindenburg, with and without swastika. The set includes the 1933 Reichsmark coinage and runs through the coins from the Allied Occupation 1945-1948. The German Third Reich Type Set, Circulation Strikes (1933-1948) is a perfect way to start a collection in this category. Coins from the Third Reich should be a reminder of the lives that were lost. In the end, it was decided that World War II was such an important era, despite the horrifying racially motivated atrocities, the coinage of that period should not be ignored. It left a permanent stain on human history. The German Third Reich is responsible for the Holocaust, the murder of six million Jews in Europe.

There was a debate about adding the German Third Reich category to the PCGS Set Registry®.
