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Where to Store Gold: Six Options, Compared Honestly
Most people choosing storage are really choosing between six arrangements. Each page names what the alternative does better than us, because two of them beat us outright for the right holder.
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Allocated
Your specific bars. Not a claim on a pool
9R
Highest UL vault rating available
1983
Operating on the Galt Ocean Mile since
Audited
Independent verification, and you can attend
6 comparisons
Every page says when the other answer is the right one.
A Large Depository
Delaware Depository, Brink’s Global Services and the state-chartered depositories do this at a scale we do not attempt. For a large part of the market they are the correct answer, and one requirement settles the question outright.
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A Bank Safe Deposit Box
A bank box is cheap, familiar and for a lot of holdings entirely sufficient. We rent boxes too, and we will point you at one rather than sell you something larger. But two things about bank boxes surprise almost everyone.
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Storage Where You Bought It
Buy the metal and it never ships — it appears in an account and can be sold in a click. The convenience is real and the liquidity is genuinely better than ours. The question is what happens when your seller, your price-setter and your custodian are the same company.
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A Home Safe
A good safe, properly bolted down, is a reasonable answer for a modest holding and costs nothing after you buy it. Two details decide whether it stays reasonable as the holding grows: what your policy actually covers, and what a house fire does to metal.
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Pooled or Unallocated Storage
Pooled storage is cheaper, and for someone treating metal as a position rather than a possession that is a fair trade honestly made. But the difference between the two is not a service tier. It is the difference between owning a bar and being owed one.
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Offshore Storage
Switzerland and Singapore have deep, mature vaulting industries and long-settled law on bailment. If your specific concern is exposure to one government, offshore storage addresses something no domestic vault can. It also brings obligations that are not ours to advise you on.
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Tell us what needs to move.
What, from where, and roughly when. You do not need an inventory to start the conversation, and if the job belongs with an armored carrier we will say so on the call.