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Market Updates & Premiums
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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, […]
Why Gold and Silver Premiums Spike During Shortages
August 20, 2026
Watch a bullion market during a real scare and you notice something that seems to break the rules. The spot price on the screen is falling, sometimes hard, yet the coin you actually want costs more than it did a week ago, and the dealer says it will ship in three weeks if you are […]
The Bid-Ask Spread on Gold and Silver, Explained
August 12, 2026
Pull up a live gold quote and you will see a single number climbing or sliding. Walk up to a dealer counter, or a dealer’s website, and that single number splits in two. There is a price to buy and a lower price to sell, and the space between them has a name: the bid-ask […]
The Silver Eagle Shortage Nobody Is Watching Yet
August 12, 2026
Silver Eagles aren't disappearing from America's coin shops - not yet. But new-coin flow from the U.S. Mint has slowed dramatically, including a zero print in May, and today's inventory churn could become tomorrow's premium problem.
What Is the Premium Over Spot on Gold and Silver?
July 30, 2026
Anyone who has bought a gold or silver coin runs into the same small shock at checkout. The spot price on the screen says one thing, and the coin costs more. That gap has a name. It is the premium over spot, and understanding it is the difference between buying metal well and quietly overpaying […]
Rosland Capital Files for Bankruptcy: What the Court Record Shows About How a Household-Name Gold Dealer Collapsed
July 13, 2026
A company that sold "stability" on television for nearly two decades is now liquidating, with roughly 617 customers owed about $60 million — and its own filing lays out how it happened.