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Market Updates & Premiums
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Why Gold Eagles Cost More Than Krugerrands
October 28, 2026
Put a one-ounce American Gold Eagle and a one-ounce Krugerrand side by side on a scale and they will read the same, give or take a hair. Both are 22-karat gold, both weigh about 33.93 grams, and both contain exactly one troy ounce of pure gold. Ask a dealer for a quote on each, though, […]
What Silver Lease Rates Tell You About Coin Premiums
October 1, 2026
Spot silver sat near $61 an ounce as October opened, with gold near $4,177. Those are the numbers on the screen, and they are the ones most buyers watch. They are not the numbers that decide what a one-ounce coin costs above its metal value, and they are not where a tight physical market shows […]
How the U.S. Mint Prices Its Gold Coins
September 28, 2026
A buyer who checks the Mint’s catalog on a Tuesday and again on Thursday morning can find the same proof gold coin carrying a different price, even when gold itself barely moved in between. Nothing improper has happened. The United States Mint reprices its collector gold on a published schedule, against a published table, and […]
Do You Pay Sales Tax on Gold and Silver?
September 25, 2026
Plenty of buyers will spend an afternoon shaving half a point off a coin’s premium, then hand over several times that much at checkout without a second thought. In most of the country that second number is zero, because most states decided years ago that taxing money by the ounce made little sense. In a […]
How Gold Price Locks Work, and Why Your Quote Expires
September 22, 2026
Anyone who has bought bullion online has watched the little clock in the corner of the cart tick down, with a note that the price refreshes when it reaches zero. Plenty of first-time buyers read that as a pressure tactic borrowed from airline websites. It is closer to the opposite. That timer is the visible […]
Why Gold Prices Differ Between Dealers for the Same Coin
September 13, 2026
Open two browser tabs, drop the same one-ounce gold coin into both carts, and the totals will not match. Neither seller is doing anything improper. The metal is identical, the weight is identical, and the spot quote feeding both pages came out of the same wholesale market seconds ago. Gold prices differ between dealers because […]
Why Are Silver Premiums Higher Than Gold Premiums?
September 10, 2026
Buy a one-ounce gold coin and a one-ounce silver coin on the same afternoon, and something odd turns up on the receipt. The gold coin costs a few percent more than the metal inside it. The silver coin can cost fifteen or twenty percent more, and in a busy market a good deal more than […]
Why Coin Premiums Change When Gold and Silver Move
September 7, 2026
Anyone who has watched a dealer’s order page for a few months has noticed something strange. Spot climbs hard, and the finished coin costs less over metal than it did before. Spot collapses, and the coin stubbornly refuses to get cheap. The metal is doing one thing. The coin is doing something else entirely. That […]
Which Gold and Silver Coins Are Easiest to Sell?
September 2, 2026
Most buying guides stop at the purchase. You compare premiums, pick a coin, and the story ends when the package arrives. But every ounce you buy is half of a round trip. Sooner or later, you or your heirs will sell, and the form you chose years earlier decides how fast that happens and how […]
Secondary Market Bullion: Why Premiums Differ From New Coins
August 29, 2026
Two American Silver Eagles can sit side by side in the same case, hold the same troy ounce of .999 silver, and carry different price tags. One is a brand-new coin fresh from this year’s production. The other changed hands a few years ago and came back to a dealer’s counter. Same metal, same design, […]