>>60933720
>I'm just trying to amass as much gold as I can, and add silver when nice designs or nexts in series come by.
The most cost effective way to get gold is to buy silver. The ratio is around 86:1. When silver spikes (gold leads first, then silver slingshots) the ratio closes, and you can trade your silver for more gold than your money would have otherwise bought, had you originally just bought the gold.

Three times in the 20th century, the silver-gold ratio dropped to approximately 20:1.

Once so far this century (2011) the ratio dropped to 30:1. Three times so far this century, the silver-gold ratio dropped to or very near 40:1

Buying silver at 86:1 ratio and selling it for gold when the ratio drops to 40:1 or better means you DOUBLE the amount of gold that the same money buys. If the silver-gold ratio increased to 120:1 I would be selling some gold to get more silver.

The exception to this would be if you MUST have your precious metals in a format that you can easily hide, or if you live in a jurisdiction like the EU where there is a 20% VAT on silver but no tax on sovereign gold coins.