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Free guide

A short guide to UK gold

Eleven pages on Sovereigns and Britannias, the two tax rules, the vault or your door, and how selling works. Free, and sent by email, usually within twenty minutes.

  • Sovereigns and Britannias, and how they differ
  • Why coins are free of Capital Gains Tax and bars are not
  • The vault or your door: what each involves
  • How selling works, and what a dealing spread is

We email you the guide and may call to answer any questions. We do not share your details. Privacy notice.

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  • CoverThe UK gold guide

  • Page 3What you own

  • Page 4Where it is kept

  • Page 7How the tax works

Inside the guide

What is in the guide

One subject to a page, in this order, ending with the questions gold buyers ask.

  1. 3What you own
  2. 4Where your coins are kept
  3. 5How it works, in three stages
  4. 6What it costs, year by year
  5. 7How the tax works
  6. 8How selling works
  7. 9The Sovereign and the Britannia
  8. 10Questions
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What happens after you ask

The guide comes first. Everything after it is at your pace, and nothing is bought until you have the price and every fee in writing and have said yes.

The guide, by email

Usually within twenty minutes, from admin@oakandmason.co.uk. Not there by then? Look in your spam folder, then write to us and we will send it again. Six more emails follow over the next twelve days.

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A call, if you want one

A member of the team may call the number you gave, to answer any questions about the guide. Or choose a fifteen-minute call at a time that suits you.

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A recommendation

A short questionnaire on your budget and your horizon. We write back naming specific coins, with the price of each. No charge, no obligation.

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Common questions

Is there a charge for the guide?

No. The guide is free, and asking for it does not commit you to anything.

Is the guide advice?

No. It explains how Royal Mint gold coins are held, taxed and sold. Nothing in it is personal investment, tax or legal advice, and tax rules can change.

What do you do with my details?

We use them to send the guide and the emails that follow it, and a member of the team may call to answer any questions. We do not share them. The privacy notice sets out the rest.

Can I have the whisky guide too?

Yes, from the whisky cask guide page. Ask for it once this one has arrived: each comes in its own email.

The other guide

A short guide to whisky casks

What a cask of Scotch whisky is, how it is held in your name, what it costs, how the tax works and how a cask is sold.

See the whisky guide