You can still hold gold in coins and have the Numismatic Value as a little offset.
"Numismatics is the science, study or collection of coins, medals, tokens, banknotes and other similar objects. Believed to be the oldest hobby in the world, people have been collecting coins for as long as coins have been known to exist. The Roman Emperors are known to have collected coins from the Greek Empire, more than two thousand years ago."
