The Ausecure Guide to Buying Gold & Silver · 2026 Edition
A buying guide straight from the trading desk.
Eleven pages on buying physical gold and silver: what you actually pay, what to buy first, and how an order travels from checkout to your door, insured.
Inside the guide
Eight short chapters, in the order you will need them.
- 1Why physical metalOwning the metal, rather than a claim on it.3
- 2The five metalsGold, silver, platinum, palladium and rhodium, and the forms each is sold in.4
- 3What you paySpot, premium, and when your price is confirmed.5
- 4What to buy firstThe coins and bars the whole market recognizes.6
- 5How to orderFive steps from a free account to a confirmed order.7
- 6How to payWire, check, card and crypto, and what each one costs.8
- 7After you orderShipping, storage and selling back.9
- 8Your first orderA checklist, and the mistakes to skip.10
Who wrote it
Peter Thomas and the Ausecure desk
Pete started as a filling broker in the silver pit in 1979 and has spent more than fifty years in the commodities markets. The guide is how he and the desk walk a first-time buyer through an order, with every figure taken from Ausecure’s published terms.
What it is not
Not a sales script, and not advice.
It does not tell you how much of your savings to put into metal, and nobody will call you because you read it. It is general information, not investment, tax or legal advice.
Questions
About the guide.
Is the guide free?
Yes. Download it without an account or an email address.
How current are the figures?
Shipping fees, payment terms and fineness rules are as published on ausecure.com in October 2026. Metal prices move all day; the live prices are on the live prices page. The Ausecure Terms of Use and your order confirmation govern every order.
Can I print it or pass it on?
Yes. Print it, or share it in full and unchanged.
Is this investment advice?
No. It is general information about buying, paying for, shipping, storing and selling physical metal. How much of your savings to hold in metal is your decision, with your own advisers.
What if my question isn’t in the guide?
Call 1-855-528-4653 and a trader picks up, or write to [email protected].
When you are ready to buy.
Opening an account costs nothing and does not commit you to buy.
