In this period I am trying to understand how to invest my savings. In particular, I’m wondering if it’s smart to buy precious metals. To start with, more for “folk” reasons than for a real investment, I started by buying a little gold coin in internet. I bought it from the Australian mint, and it was delivered with the postal service. But now that I received it, I must admit that two seriously negative facts made this purchase not convenient at all.

• First, the Italian governement applied monstrous taxes at the customs and made the operation super expensive (39 Euro in taxes for a tiny coin, are you crazy!?).
• Second, owning a real gold coin had some worrying effect on my behavior, as exemplified by this proof: my-precious