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 Homestead 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.

Wilmore Jewelers Inc

1315 Hoffman Blvd, West Mifflin, PA 15122

(412) 462-6600

Kapolka Jewelers

1801 Pennsylvania Ave, West Mifflin, PA 15122

(412) 469-3676

Silver & Gold Connection

3075 Clairton Rd Ste 1010, West Mifflin, PA 15123

(412) 650-5121

Glassport Buy Sell & Trade

728 Monongahela Ave, Glassport, PA 15045

(412) 896-4790

412 Exchange Buy - Sell - Trade

100 Westinghouse Ave, North Versailles, PA 15137

(412) 205-8657

Fat Pocket Pawn

365 Lincoln Hwy, North Versailles, PA 15137

(412) 436-5567

Agostini Jewelers

1016 5th Ave, East Mc Keesport, PA 15035

(412) 824-8777

Atlantic Gold Exchange

5428 Campbells Run Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15205

(412) 809-8111

CASH FOR GOLD / GOLD EXCHANGE

2936 West Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15216

(412) 563-7777

Werner Jewelers

1130 Perry Highway Pines Plz, Pittsburgh, PA 15237

(412) 367-2336

Pittsburgh Gold Buyer

990 Rowland Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15221

(412) 250-7180

Crown Antiques & Collectibles

1018 5th Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15219

(412) 208-4306

Trinity Jewelers

647 Mount Nebo Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15237

(412) 348-8799

Luppino Brothers Inc.

589 Clairton Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA 15236

(412) 655-0626

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.