Many customers wonder why their foreign coins are almost worthless. Obviously, foreign coins with gold or silver content will at LEAST be worth the precious metal content. The issue is with clad (or non precious metal) coins. Even old foreign coins don’t have much value, and the reason in that collectors are not really interested […]
Monthly Archives: March 2017
The good news, black diamonds are real! The bad news, they don’t sparkle, because they’re black. They absorb light rather than refract it. They are real diamonds, but they have a different structure. A white diamond sparkles because light comes in, bounces around in a predictable way, and is reflected out. The cut of the […]
Many customers ask us what causes Gold and Silver to go down and up. The answer is not very simple. Gold and Silver are traded on the futures exchanges just like copper, rice and pork bellies. On any given day, gold will trade within a 2% or more range. The prices are correlated to a […]
It is not a secret in the industry that the big boys are betting that gold and silver go lower. They are mostly to the short side. For those who may not understand, when a financial firm makes a “SHORT” bet, they are of the belief that the price will go lower, and thus they […]
The big day has come, you finally decide he or she is the one you want to spend the rest of your life with. You go down to the local jewelry store and pick out a diamond you like, and BANG! you get hit with the price. It is important to understand that jewelers mark […]
What do diamonds and clothes have in common? They both come in and out of style. Diamonds come in all shapes, such as round, marquee, cushion cut, princess cut, oval, emerald, pear and more. Currently, round and princess cut are commanding higher prices than most others, with marquee and pear shaped diamonds commanding the least. […]
