Japan's biggest bullion house Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo said
on Monday its sales of gold coins more than doubled in 2008,
as investors flocked to the safe-haven metal amid the global
financial crisis.
Gold coin sales jumped in February following a spike in gold
prices and also again from October as the credit crisis picked
up steam.
It sold a combined 158,851 ounces of two types of investment-purpose
gold coins, up 121 percent from 2007, the bullion house said
in a statement.
