Gold is the metal of kings, the ultimate money, an eternal store of value, an un-tarnishable embodiment of beauty. Gold is all those things. But it is not the most valuable metal you can own on a cost-per-ounce basis.

Often, platinum commands a higher price than gold. Lately, platinum has traded at an abnormally large discount to the yellow metal.

Metals investors who want to hold the most concentrated wealth in a single ounce bullion product should opt not for gold or platinum…but for a different platinum group metal called rhodium.

Rhodium is scarce and thinly traded. Frankly, it’s a little-known metal even among metals investors.

Like platinum and palladium, the primary application for rhodium is catalytic converters for cars and trucks. It is al ... Read more »