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 Shaftsburg 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.

Sundance Jewelry

201 E Grand River Ave, East Lansing, MI 48823

(517) 337-7446

Silver & Beyond

333 Albert Ave Ste 102, East Lansing, MI 48823

(517) 337-3202

Silver Streak

317 E Grand River Ave, East Lansing, MI 48823

(517) 332-6000

Trade Network

740 W Lake Lansing Rd, East Lansing, MI 48823

(517) 886-8900

Mandelo Coin & Currency Company

2276 E M 21, Owosso, MI 48867

(989) 720-2030

Genesee Valley Gold Silver & Diamonds

403 E Main St, Owosso, MI 48867

(989) 729-8000

Su Casa Jewelers

1041 N Cedar St, Lansing, MI 48906

(517) 487-9090

Instant Cash Advance

6100 S Cedar St Ste 3, Lansing, MI 48911

(517) 272-1188

38 Instant Cash

4238 W Saginaw Hwy, Lansing, MI 48917

(517) 803-4568

Gold Pros

5330 W Saginaw Hwy, Lansing, MI 48917

(517) 327-2804

Tri County Gold And Silver

5025 W Saginaw Hwy, Lansing, MI 48917

(517) 708-8075

Solid Gold and Silver Jewelry

3490 Okemos Rd., Okemos, MI 48864

(517) 977-0241

Premier Coins & Collectibles

7050 W Saginaw Hwy Ste 4, Lansing, MI 48917

(517) 886-2646

Dicker and Deal Lansing

1701 S Cedar St, Lansing, MI 48910

(517) 487-3886

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.