The ample supplies of coins, rounds, and bars being sold back into the retail bullion market are keeping premiums down. These “secondary market” items are almost always in stock and available at a significant discount to newly minted product. It’s an opportunity buyers have lacked for most of the past decade.

Folks should not hesitate to take advantage of today’s historic low premiums.

When our Specialists recommend buying lower-priced secondary market products, it is common for clients to ask whether anything is wrong with them. They wonder if perhaps the coins have been damaged.

The answer is usually “no.” Ethical dealers will always disclose condition issues. Unless the buyer is specifically told the items they are buying are t ... Read more »