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 Topeka 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

Herschel's Coin Co

304 Rusche St, Creve Coeur, IL 61610

(309) 698-8081

Creative Collections By Wendy

3211 N Prospect Rd, Peoria, IL 61603

(309) 273-1066

A-Z Jewelry & Swap Inc.

414 SW Adams St, Peoria, IL 61602

(309) 340-1846

Itex

4408 N Rockwood Dr, Peoria, IL 61615

(309) 688-4839

Pettet Jewelry Designs Ltd

4541 N Prospect Rd, Peoria Heights, IL 61616

(866) 325-1647

Westlake Rare Coins

2601 W Lake Ave Ste 14, Peoria, IL 61615

(309) 686-2535

Windsor Coin

1611 N Autumn Ln, Peoria, IL 61604

(309) 674-0313

Westlake Rare Coins

7815 N Knoxville Ave Ste 1C, Peoria, IL 61614

(309) 693-2541

Creative Collections & Coins by Wendy

3223 N Prospect Rd, Peoria, IL 61603

(309) 685-5323

Silver & Gold Connection

2200 W War Memorial Dr Ste 206, Peoria, IL 61613

(309) 685-1128

Rassi's Rare Coins

709 S Columbus Ave, Morton, IL 61550

(309) 263-0739

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.