Good news that your girlfriend has also entered the world of investment metals! What are your favorites, coins or bars? I appreciate some cool limited edition coins but if you don't care about collectible, i think bars are the right choice. I bought some physical gold and silver last year too. I think a small percentage of our own portfolio is good to keep in these assets, but only if you buy the physical asset. No futures, options or intangibles ways to invest in gold and silver.
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I am more oriented for bars, above a certain size to reduce the impact of the manufacturing cost.
I have been advised from professionals to pay more attention to bars rather than coins because of its intrinsic value and coins, having a low weight, have usually a higher impact of the manufacturing cost. Making them interesting for the collectible purpose, but with less margin.
Anyway, beyond this technical aspect, I think that the most important thing is to gather metals and metals