What makes it gold bullion is simply
Buying gold bullion is now cheaper and easier than ever before. And its still, by a long way the safest way to own gold. Gold bullion is a valuable precious metal - namely gold. Gold bullion is either gold coins and bars of various types, sizes and weights. The bars come in a variety of sizes and weights from as small as one gram worth a few dollars to the one ounce, ten ounce, one hundred ounce and one thousand kilogram bars as well as the traditional 400 ounce bars or ingots used by large companies and institutions. You can now buy gold bullion bars as small as 1 gram or a 20th of a troy ounce. Of course buying gold in such small quantities is not very practical as the cost is so high.What makes it gold bullion is simply that its value derives entirely from its precious metal content. Unlike jewelry, or numismatic coins, gold bullion has no artistic component in its value. If you want to buy some gold bullion these days it is relatively easy to do so. All you have to do in the beginning is to get the current value of gold per ounce or gram in USD. This is the standard used. Compare this to the price of the bullion bars on offer. Then pick that bar or those bars that more closely match your spending budget and offer the lowest margins.