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French Rooster Popular Gold Coin

n the recent past, the price of gold has once again risen above the $2,000 per troy ounce mark on world markets. Moments like this make many of us wish we had purchased a lot of the yellow metal sometime in the past. Short of making and jumping into a time machine, we will not be able to go back to tell ourselves to buy, so the logical way to look at gold might be to look at gold coins that are still available at a relatively small mark-up beyond the price of the precious metal

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