The Wall Street Journal reports on sales of retail gold coins in the wake of the gold price crash:
- Australia’s biggest gold refiner, the Perth Mint, said demand for coins and bars has jumped in the past two days, after an already strong start to 2013.
- First-quarter gold coin sales rose nearly 50% from a year earlier.
- “There has been huge retail demand,”
Coin Sales Surge Despite Drop in Metal Prices (gated)