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 Ruther Glen 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.

Collector's Den

717 Caroline St, Fredericksburg, VA 22401

(540) 373-2430

Gold Deposit

137 Spotsylvania Mall, Fredericksburg, VA 22407

(703) 343-6964

Old Town Golden Treasure

8034 Mechanicsville Tpke, Mechanicsville, VA 23111

(804) 277-4871

Chandler's Second Hand Antiques

10379 Chamberlayne Rd, Mechanicsville, VA 23116

(804) 513-9640

Mechanicsville Coin

8090 Mechanicsville Tpke Ste H, Mechanicsville, VA 23111

(804) 730-7230

James River Trade Exchange

4908 Monument Ave, Richmond, VA 23230

(804) 257-7126

Bancmarc

1904 Byrd Ave Ste 326, Richmond, VA 23230

(804) 285-2554

A to Z Coins

3931 Hull Street Rd, Richmond, VA 23224

(804) 382-1933

Mechanicsville Gold-N-Coin

3612 Mechanicsville Tpke, Richmond, VA 23223

(804) 823-7368

Family Coin & Jewelry

10418 Midlothian Tpke, North Chesterfield, VA 23235

(804) 404-9218

East End Gold

5210 Nine Mile Rd, Richmond, VA 23223

(804) 774-7682

Midlothian Jewelry Exchange

11525 Midlothian Tpke Suite 107, North Chesterfield, VA 23235

(804) 201-4738

Liberty Coins

1125 Gaskins Rd, Henrico, VA 23238

(804) 495-1911

Bachrach's Jewelers

111 E Broad St, Richmond, VA 23219

(804) 648-7830

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.