No brainer if I'm offered Gold or something else, I'd always go for Gold. Simply can't go wrong with that.
(my only exception once a while could be : Platinum)
Of course, "something else" may yield higher profit or alike in the future but at my age that's not my primary concern. Nothing virtual beats the security of physical AU in your own hands.
You must be really old

Thinking that "virtual" (mind you, that's actually "digital") is somehow less real than physical.
Do you also consider email not to be real letters?