Collectors are all aware that gold has been a valuable commodity, a precious metal and the stuff of valuable coins in virtually every society that used coins and in plenty of societies that did not. Silver is another precious metal that has an ancient and colorful history to it. And while the lure, luster and desire for these two precious metals has certainly not dimmed in our modern times – as a huge number of gold and silver bullion coins testify – there are some new players in the arena, as it were. Platinum and palladium are two precious metals that have found their way into modern coins, very often into modern, bullion coins. Let’s see just what sort of inroads palladium has made.
