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 Great Lakes 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.

Lake Forest Jewelers

685 Forest Ave, Lake Forest, IL 60045

(312) 971-9156

A Plus Gold Buyers

700 E Park Ave # 110, Libertyville, IL 60048

(847) 708-6961

Mcxi Philatelics

1931 Lynn Cir, Libertyville, IL 60048

(847) 549-6468

Silver Wear

6170 Grand Ave, Gurnee, IL 60031

(847) 855-1053

Harbor Coin

5250 Grand Ave Ste 6, Gurnee, IL 60031

(847) 596-2476

Midwest Gold Buyers

6310 Grand Ave, Gurnee, IL 60031

(630) 289-4653

William H Ltd

420 Sheridan Rd, Highwood, IL 60040

(847) 306-9885

National Gold Experts Inc

615 S Lake St, Mundelein, IL 60060

(847) 566-0404

Dallas Gold & Silver Exchange

1831 Saint Johns Ave, Highland Park, IL 60035

(847) 433-7160

Hoffman Jewelers

209 Skokie Valley Rd, Highland Park, IL 60035

(847) 579-1400

Razny Jewelers

1700 Green Bay Rd, Highland Park, IL 60035

(847) 432-5300

Bullion Express

1831 Saint Johns Ave, Highland Park, IL 60035

(847) 780-0010

Harbor Coin Co Inc

1707 7th St, Winthrop Harbor, IL 60096

(847) 872-3560

Cash America

1309 N Lewis Ave, Waukegan, IL 60085

(847) 599-9198

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.