The difference between .9999 Gold and .999 Gold bar

An ingot is simply a bar of gold; it may have some standard specification as to size or weight, a .9999 is refined gold (highly refined---that means very little impurities like silver, iron and copper are in the total mix)...it's really pure, only a few mints in the world make such Gold bullion/bars with that purity. (Canada is one of them : The Royal Canadian Mint's Gold Maple Leaf coins are among the world's premier purest gold bullion on the market ) I have never heard of 999.9 purity gold. If you see it on the bar itself, it may mean something completely different. Check with the bank that issued the bar/ingot with that number and find out what it really means...or go to a reputable gold/silver dealer and that person should be able to tell you what it means. Ingots are large bars of metal. They usually weigh (based on the type of metal) quite a bit and are usually much larger than a smaller bar. Sizes vary from bank to bank.....but ingots can be as small as six by 3 by 4 inches in volume...and they can get larger. Reference: I own some silver ingot bars from the Swiss bank...they show .999 pure silver...their gold bars are stamped the same way.....plus I own quite a few gold / silver / platinum American Eagle coins....
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Gold Dinar and The Silver Dirham

I respect this guy's interpretation of money. paper cheques/money should be a value against something (as used to be gold or silver ), not just against a promises of a state to pay you “out of the hat”, as it is now. They print based on confidence they will pay you back (and that is the only value of that paper)... and I have little or less confidence on that every day




Silver for industry is not 999 pure.They use a 910 recycled silver which has no mark.999 is useless for industry.This is another thing people don't know... I prefer silver to gold, because silver is a consumable demanded in industry, not so much subject to speculation as gold, that has almost no demand out of financial investment. There are other metals and energy resources that can be purchased, but not many that you can actually have as a physic real item. Uranium is top, but is evident you can’t keep that home ;)True, only if the gouvernements don't declare the possess of silver and gold as illegal, as it was during the 1929 crash.Capitalism is a more complex thing than what imams and muslims in general think.You cannot have international transaction without paper chéques, or online trading.And you can't go around with silver coins without being stolen.Having a covering in silver and gold granted by the National State ( so not in private hands)'s okay, but not for replacing paper money.