Most articles about gold IRAs are written by people who want you to open one.
So here is one about the door on the other side, which is wider than anyone tells you and costs nothing to walk through.
Yes, you can move a gold IRA back into a regular IRA. Sell the metal, transfer the cash, done. No tax. No penalty. No limit. No deadline.
It is the same mechanism that got you in, running in reverse.
And it is the correct answer for a surprising number of people, especially anyone whose account is small enough that flat annual fees are quietly eating two or three percent a year.
There is exactly one way to get this wrong, and it hinges on a single word.