When you’re choosing to buy gold bars, one of the first decisions you have to make is the size of the bars that you buy. Bars come in sizes from nuggets all the way up to one thousand ounce bricks of bullion. You can buy any size and have it stored in a vault or delivered to your home, but the most convenient and simple size for you to buy will depend largely on your gold investing goals and needs. Here’s some information that will help you decide.
For one thing, you definitely have to figure out how portable you want your gold investment to be. Obviously the smaller bars – or even bullion coins – are going to be much easier to move than their massive bullion counterparts. However, even these small bars can become difficult to move if you get too many of them. You may want to have some of your investment in a portable form and the rest of it consolidated into larger bars for more convenience.