Gold Certificate

What Does Gold Certificate Mean?
A certificate of ownership that gold investors hold instead of storing the actual gold bullion.

Investopedia explains Gold Certificate
Gold certificates allow investors to buy and sell the security without the hassles associated with the transfer of actual physical gold.

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