Sell Gold in Phoenix

This is the step that moves the number more than anything else, and it is why a mixed lot should never be sold by weight alone.

A silver dime from before 1965 has a metal value you can calculate in seconds. The same dime, if it is a 1916-D, belongs in a different market entirely and is worth a multiple of its silver. Weighed in with the rest, it would be paid out as scrap.

So the lot is read date by date and mint mark by mint mark before anything that might be collectible goes on the scale. What melt value is, and when it is the wrong number.

Complimentary appraisal. What happens when you walk in to sell. We assess what you have, tell you what we would pay and how we arrived at it, and you decide. No charge, no obligation.

Insurance appraisal. A written, itemised report prepared for a third party to rely on - an insurer, an executor, a probate court. A separate paid service, because it is a document carrying your name that someone else will act on. What a written appraisal has to contain.

Written test documentation. If what you need is a record of the metal composition rather than a valuation, that is priced per item on our assaying page, alongside specific gravity, ultrasonic and acid testing.

Arizona has a specific statute for dealers in crafted precious metal, and it is better known before you arrive than discovered at the counter.

For jewelry, silverware and scrap, A.R.S. § 44-1602 requires us to record your name, address, date of birth and signature against valid photo identification, to pay by check only, made out to the actual seller, and to hold the items unaltered for ten calendar days. Dealers also file weekly purchase lists with local law enforcement.

None of that is shop policy - it is the law in this state, and a dealer offering to skip any of it is telling you something about how they operate. Coins and bullion are excluded from that definition and handled differently. We will say which rule covers your items before you commit to anything. Why an Arizona shop asks for ID and pays by check.

We assist probate attorneys, estate lawyers and executors with the valuation or liquidation of items containing precious metals. Many estates find jewelry and silverware easier to liquidate than to divide between beneficiaries, though plenty of the valuations we do are for items the family intends to keep.

Turnaround depends on the number of items and the service needed, and is usually one to three days. The method does not change - XRF on each piece, weighed on certified scales, priced against the market at the time of the valuation.

Inherited a collection in Arizona? What to do before you visit a dealer.