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 Santa Barbara 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.

Santa Barbara Precious Metals

1727 State Street #1, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

(805) 453-4920

We Buy Gold & Jewelry

3122 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93105

(805) 845-3228

Brombal Paul A Coins & Jewelry

3000 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93105

(805) 319-7822

Old Wharf Trading Co

217 Stearns Wharf Ste A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

(805) 962-4118

Paul A. Brombal Coins and Jewelry

3601A State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93105

(805) 687-3641

Coin & Stamp Connection

1333 De La Vina St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

(805) 962-3683

Gold Isidore & Erica

3775 Modoc Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93105

(805) 879-7607

Gold Leaf Sustainable

315 Meigs Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93109

(831) 274-2302

Himelsein Group

1129 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

(805) 966-6788

GalleonsTreasure

PO Box 40826, Santa Barbara, CA 93140

(805) 500-3021

Santa Barbara Loan & Jewelry

136 E Victoria St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

(805) 966-6264

Beverly Clark Enterprises

114 E Haley St Ste K, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

(805) 560-3604

West Coast Precious Metal Exch

5276 Hollister Ave, Santa Barbara, CA 93111

(805) 967-3236

Silver

616 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

(805) 564-1496

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.