There are times of crisis when people get short on cash and need to do something in order to make ends meet. This is why precious metals such as gold, platinum and silver make a good investment at any given time. If you want to either buy or sell such assets, you can find a comprehensive list of Dorchester platinum dealers here.

All companies are listed with all needed details, so that you can get in touch with a customer representative and see what deal you can obtain. You can save many hours of research by using directly our list instead of searching for precious metals dealers elsewhere on the web.

The Gold & Silver Exchange of Charleston

308 Old Trolley RD, Summerville, SC 29485

(843) 345-7115

Charleston Gold & Diamond Exchange

1651 N Main St, Summerville, SC 29483

(843) 461-1691

Cash For Gold Depot

1672 N Main St, Summerville, SC 29483

(843) 821-3339

Cash America Pawn

1208 N Main St Suite 102, Summerville, SC 29483

(843) 790-5554

Rec Inc

1246 Bacons Bridge Rd, Summerville, SC 29485

(843) 871-3070

Cash For Gold Express

9589 Highway 78, Ladson, SC 29456

(843) 573-7102

Silver Dollar Pawn Shop

1013 S Jefferies Blvd Ste C, Walterboro, SC 29488

(843) 549-2354

Cash America Pawn - Pawn Shops & Loans

4400 Dorchester Rd, #12-A, North Charleston, SC 29405

(843) 744-1136

Cash America Pawn

4400 Dorchester Rd Suite 112, North Charleston, SC 29405

(843) 790-8865

Treasure Hut

3620 Ashley Phosphate Rd, North Charleston, SC 29418

(843) 767-2800

Meridian Metals Management

2631 Industrial Ave, North Charleston, SC 29405

(843) 856-1045

Ecka Granules

500 Prosperity Dr, Orangeburg, SC 29115

(803) 536-0215

Island Gold and Silver

3338 Maybank Hwy Ste C, Johns Island, SC 29455

(843) 901-0207

Southeastern Gold, Silver, & Coin Buyers

3458 Main Hwy, Bamberg, SC 29003

(803) 673-2779

About Buying Platinum From Dealers

Platinum is a precious metal that you can buy on paper in the commodities market, or you can buy it in person from platinum dealers. However you buy platinum, there's no doubt that you can benefit from having it in your investment portfolio.

Investment advisers often recommend that you dedicate 9.5% of your portfolio in so-called hard assets, which includes precious metals like platinum, gold, and silver. Like gold, platinum can cushion your portfolio from inflation and the fluctuations in stock prices.

Platinum has intrinsic value, meaning that it has industrial uses, especially in the car industry where it is used for making diesel autocatalyst. Unlike gold, however, it can quickly change prices depending on the demand by the auto industry, and its accompanying supply (it is rarer than gold and silver). If you are a trader, you can definitely take advantage of this characteristic of platinum as a traded commodity.

However,  if you want to secure your portfolio, you need to buy hard platinum. Your best option is to buy platinum bars because you can get the lowest-priced per-troy ounce that way.

Like gold bars, you need to buy your platinum from a reputable platinum dealers – there are many counterfeiters out there, and you definitely don't want to become a victim.  A standard platinum bar is made of 10 troy ounces of this precious metal, at a purity of 0.9995. You can trade it, or have the dealer store it for you, or you could have it delivered to you.

Aside from bars, you could also buy platinum coins. They come with the same purity as the bars when you buy them from a reputable dealer, but only in smaller sizes.  There are two governments that mint these coins – the Canadian and the US government and they are treated as legal tender and are valued at the amount stamped on them.