One Ounce Bullion Coins
There is a choice of gold bullion coins for investors, but our advice is generally to buy the cheapest, determined by percentage premium over intrinsic value.

The Selection
The following one ounce bullion coins are the most readily available, although there are others.

• Australian Nuggets
• Austrian Philharmonikers
• British Britannias
• Canadian Maples
• Chinese Pandas
• South African Krugerrands
• USA Eagles

Other One Ounce Bullion Coins
Other gold coins containing one ounce of fine gold do exist, but they are not as widely available, so we can ignore them here.

Our Advice
Over many years, our advice to investors has been very simple and consistent. Within reason, buy the cheapest.

Conclusion
Most of the time, Krugerrands are more readily available than any other one ounce bullion coins, and at lower prices. Krugerrands are therefore a better investment purchase than the other alternatives.
Since we created this page in 1999 / 2000, at times the premium on Krugerrands has been ridiculously high, due to lemmings, when we would strongly recommend buying whatever else happens to be the cheapest at the time. We have also introduced "our choice" as described below.

However...
It is often possible to buy older "real" gold coins for a similar premium to Krugerrands, in which case, we would normally recommend buying them instead. More information on our Real Coins versus Bullion Coins page.
Since we wrote this last paragraph, supply of most of these older coins has also tightened and premiums firmed up, demonstrating that our advice was right. As we cannot update this and all the 10,000 other pages of our websites every few day, please remember to think flexibly.

New! - One Ounce Best Buy
If you want the best possible price on one-ounce gold bullion coins, leave the choice to us. Most of the time you will receive Krugerrands, but occasionally you may be lucky enough to get nuggets, maples, Britannias, eagles, or any of the other one ounce coins. These are normally more expensive, but occasionally we have a surplus of one of them, and a shortage of Krugerrands. Whatever happens, you win as you get a better price, and possibly a "better" coin.