The Ledger — Coin Collecting Guides
What we know about buying, holding and selling gold in Britain, written plainly and without a sales pitch. No guide here ends by telling you to buy something.
Two hundred years of the same coin: why 22 carat, why Pistrucci's St George, and why it still leads the catalogue.
Investment gold is VAT free in the UK. What that covers, and why it is a different exemption from Capital Gains Tax.
UK legal tender coins are exempt whatever the gain. Foreign coins are not. Exactly what qualifies, and why it decides what is worth buying.
Why it is a proportion rather than a sum, whether to buy at once or gradually, and which pieces to buy first.
What gold is actually for, what it is not, and the structural advantage British buyers have.
Why most British collectors end up with coins: divisibility, and a Capital Gains Tax exemption that bars never had.
Coins or bars, how much to start with, where it lives, and the two UK tax exemptions that decide most of it.