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 Fair Oaks platinum dealers here.

Precious Gems Jewelers

723 Sutter St, Folsom, CA 95630

(916) 351-0220

Gold Brothers

5520 Watt Ave, North Highlands, CA 95660

(916) 333-4350

Gold Rush Coins and Jewelry

4060 Douglas Blvd. #108, Granite Bay, CA 95746

(916) 789-0909

Old Gold Exch Fine Est

6049 Douglas Blvd # 2, Granite Bay, CA 95746

(916) 772-5050

Pro Diamond Buyers

4060 Douglas Blvd. # 108, Granite BAy, CA 95746

(916) 390-7762

Gold Exchange

4060 Douglas Blvd, Granite Bay, CA 95746

(916) 772-2274

Rocklin Coin Shop

4870 Granite Dr, Rocklin, CA 95677

(916) 315-0888

Ariston Venture Capital

5049 Robert J Mathews Pkwy Ste 400, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762

(888) 838-1217

NTR Metals

1050 Riverside Pkwy, West Sacramento, CA 95605

(916) 668-6121

Mina-Bazar

1335 #A Merkley Avenue, West Sacramento, CA 95691

(916) 371-2700

Gold Digger

8996 Elk Grove Blvd, Elk Grove, CA 95624

(916) 686-1313

Coins Currency & Collectibles

9074 Elk Grove Blvd Ste 5, Elk Grove, CA 95624

(916) 685-3313

Lincoln Gold & Coin

547 Lincoln Blvd, Lincoln, CA 95648

(916) 543-4653

Auburn Jewelry & Loan

948 Lincoln Way, Auburn, CA 95603

(530) 885-9219

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.