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 Mason City 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.

Old Prairie Trading Post

816 Derby St, Pekin, IL 61554

(309) 346-4619

Derby Pawn

814 Derby St, Pekin, IL 61554

(309) 346-8609

Dave's Trading Post & Coin Shp

333 Derby St, Pekin, IL 61554

(309) 353-7522

PGS Gold Buyers

1914 North Grand E. Avenue, Springfield, IL 62702

(217) 793-1600

Klos Jewelers

1705 N Dirksen Pkwy, Springfield, IL 62702

(217) 544-9802

Party Gold Style Inc

1914 N Grand Ave E, Springfield, IL 62702

(217) 793-1600

Kloever & Sons Jewelry

2657 S 5th St, Springfield, IL 62703

(217) 544-2000

The Gold Center

3000 W Iles Ave, Springfield, IL 62704

(217) 793-8002

Presidential Coins Currency Gold & Silver LLC

1316 S Macarthur Blvd, Springfield, IL 62704

(217) 960-2646

Watches Coins Antiques Etc

2195 J David Jones Pkwy, Springfield, IL 62707

(217) 523-2646

Goldlink

2724 S Macarthur Blvd Ste A, Springfield, IL 62704

(217) 789-9020

Monster Pawn Springfield

2324 S Macarthur Blvd, Springfield, IL 62704

(217) 744-7296

Absolute Jewelry

526 E Capitol Ave, Springfield, IL 62701

(217) 891-7025

Piggy Bank

1933 W Monroe St, Springfield, IL 62704

(217) 670-1028

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.