precious metals or other commodities

[Colin Law]

On 21 October 2010 20:34, scar <scar at drigon.com> wrote:
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> is there a way to keep track of values of precious metals or other
> commodoties which change in monetary value over time?  i have some
> silver coins and kind of wanted to keep track of their values in
> gnucash, and have it part of my 'current assets' or something.  i
> realize i will probably have to edit the monetary value as i notice it
> change.  is something like that possible?  how would it be set up?  thanks

There may be a better way, but you treat them as shares in a fund.
You would be then able to buy and sell them and specifying unit value
varying over time.

Colin