What we buy · Platinum & Palladium
Selling Platinum and Palladium
Platinum and palladium are the metals most often mistaken for something else — usually white gold or silver, both worth considerably less.
No appointment needed. No obligation to sell.
Live metal market
This is the market your offer is calculated against — not a chart printed last week. Your items are tested and weighed at the counter, and the arithmetic is done in front of you.
Fort Lauderdale
3562 N Ocean Blvd, Suite B
Galt Ocean Mile
Walk in
Mon–Fri 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
No appointment needed
2004
Buying gold in Broward County since
1983
Family owned and buying in Broward since
87,000+
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Live
Spot pricing, tested and weighed in front of you
Before you sell
What to watch out for
A platinum ring sold as white gold is a real and common loss. They look alike, the marks are small and easily worn away, and a buyer who does not test carefully will default to the cheaper assumption. This is the category where testing in front of you matters most.
At the counter
How this one is valued
Weight in the hand is the first clue. Platinum is around half again as dense as 14k white gold, so a plain band that feels heavier than it looks is worth testing. Palladium does the opposite and feels light for a white metal, which is why it gets called silver. Neither responds to a standard gold acid test the way gold does, so this category goes to XRF. Marks are PT, PLAT, 950, 900 or PD, and they sit inside a shank where wear takes them off first.
How we handle it
- Tested specifically rather than assumed to be white gold.
- Bars and coins from recognized refiners handled directly.
- Both metals priced against their own live markets, which move independently of gold.
- Palladium in dental and industrial forms also bought.
Said plainly
When it is worth more than the metal
The two metals part company here. Platinum jewelry from the filigree era, roughly 1900 to 1940, is often worth more intact than melted: hand-pierced mountings, milgrain work, signed settings from the period. Platinum is also what good diamond mountings were made from, so the metal can be the cheapest thing in the piece. Have the stones looked at before anything goes near a refiner. Palladium is different. There is no collector market for it worth chasing, so palladium jewelry, bars and dental work are metal, and that is the story.
What not to do
Before you bring it in
Bring the pieces you were told were white gold, including the ones a jeweler told you about. That mistake is why this page exists. Do not have anything replated or polished first, because on an older platinum mounting a polish rounds off the milgrain and the hand-pierced detail that makes it worth more than its weight, and that does not come back. Leave stones set. If there is an insurance appraisal in a drawer, bring it, since those documents usually name the metal and that saves an argument.
Bringing it in
Platinum jewelry is usually marked PT, PLAT or 950, but the mark is often worn. Bring anything you suspect might be platinum, including pieces you were told were white gold.
The market right now
These are live spot prices per troy ounce. They are the starting point for the arithmetic, not the offer — see what your gold is worthfor how a counter price is actually built.
Both are quoted per troy ounce, on markets much thinner than gold's, with fewer trades, wider spreads and larger daily moves in both directions. Jewelry is still weighed in grams. Watch the number in the mark as well: 950 means 95% of the metal is platinum, while a PD500 piece is only half palladium, so two stamps that look alike are not comparable.
FAQ
Common questions
- How do I tell platinum from white gold?
- Usually you cannot by eye. Bring it and we test it.
- Does palladium track the gold price?
- No. Both platinum and palladium trade on their own markets and move independently.
- Do you buy platinum bars?
- Yes, from recognized refiners.
- What if I was told it was white gold?
- Bring it anyway. That is exactly the mistake worth checking.
Areas served
Where our sellers come from
Our counter
Galt Ocean Mile
Our Fort Lauderdale counter is on this stretch of North Ocean Boulevard. For the oceanfront towers here it is a walk, and estate jewelry from these buildings is a large part of what crosses the counter.
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5 min
Lauderdale-by-the-Sea
Minutes north on A1A. A older, settled population means estate lots rather than one-off pieces — often a full box after a house is cleared.
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6 min
Coral Ridge
Six minutes south along Federal or Bayview. Many Coral Ridge sellers are downsizing rather than liquidating, which usually means sorted, well-kept pieces.
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9 min
Oakland Park
Straight west on Oakland Park Boulevard, and the easiest approach during season when A1A backs up.
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12 min
Wilton Manors
A short run inland. We see a lot of watch and designer-piece questions from here, where the brand often matters more than the metal.
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13 min
Downtown Fort Lauderdale
The Las Olas and downtown corridor. Convenient at lunchtime, and the reason we hold weekday hours rather than weekend-only.
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We also buy
Gold Jewelry
Chains, rings and odd earrings tested for karat at the counter, weighed in front of you, priced on the live market.
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Gold Coins & Bullion
Eagles, Maples, Krugerrands and refiner bars verified while you wait, with anything worth more than melt flagged first.
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Silver
Bars, rounds, junk coin and sterling flatware tested piece by piece, so a genuine set never leaves valued as plate.
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Find out what it is actually worth.
Bring it in, or email a few photos first. Either way you get a real figure and no pressure to take it.
Bring valid government-issued photo ID. Florida law requires it for every purchase.