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Precious Metals is a jewelry store in Sudbury, MA. We build custom pieces that range from traditional to way out there. Check out our web store and gallery.

Old gold

This is a great blog post by the folks at Mardon Jeweler’s in Riverside, CA. It has a perfect example/explanation of why we never use “old gold” in our work, but use recycled gold in every piece we make. While re-using gold from your old jewelry to make new pieces sounds both practical and romantic, [...]

April 23rd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Gold Buying/Selling, Love it!, What you should know. | Leave a comment

All that glitters

http://www.boston.com/business/personalfinance/articles/2010/03/05/all_that_glitters_may_not_be_cash/

Great article about selling gold. While Precious Metals buys gold, we will ALWAYS tell you exactly what we pay per pennyweight and will convert that to a per gram price if you request. We will break it down to the exact percentage that we pay (63%). Which mean that if the market value of [...]

March 5th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Gold Buying/Selling, News, What you should know. | Leave a comment

Selling your gold: What determins the price?

So you have some gold, and you call a few places to see what they are paying. My my post Shopping around has some information about the units (grams or pennyweights) that most gold buyers use and how to convert between the two. It also talks about gold content in the different carats, which is [...]

July 15th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Gold Buying/Selling | Leave a comment

Selling Gold. Part One of Four.

We buy gold at Precious Metals, and we get a lot of questions about the whole process. The nightly news is talking about how to sell your gold and showing hidden camera investigations. There are ads for mail-in services playing on every TV channel, and many jewelry stores have signs in their windows saying [...]

May 15th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Gold Buying/Selling | Leave a comment