My policy is to buy rounds. Rounds have the composition, purity, and weight of the round stamped on them.
Coins may or may not have all three of those values on them, and have arbitrary specie values, which has always been confusing.
The basic round sizes are 1 ozt, 1/2 ozt, 1/4 ozt, and 1/10 ozt. (ozt = ounce troy, 31.1grams)
I've stuck heavily with the ounces and have some of the fractionals for making change.
Bars tend to be much heavier. My experience has been 1 ozt, 5 ozt, 10 ozt, 1 kg ( 32 & 3/20 ozt) and 100 ozt.
By "heavier" the parties in question likely meant too much VOLUME for weight and value. Thanks, but what little gold I will ever have will be MUCH less than silver by a factor of XXXX. That and some poor schmo with worn silver will be far less of a target for theft than a guy trading in gold.
Apologies if it sounds like lecturing. I've spent the last four years trying to make up for the three years of missed chances before that in silver, with a lot of learning and admittedly mixed success.
Kesephist
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