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Precious metals are simply elemental metals with a high economic value, generally due to a combination of usefulness and rarity. While there are around a dozen materials that are often considered precious metals, the “Big Four” are gold, silver, platinum, and palladium. Gold and silver are “household names” – you would be hard-pressed to find…
2020 is a year of continuous curveballs. The latest bizarre crisis facing the United States? A shortage of common coins in circulation. Just as stocks of toilet paper, hand sanitizer and cleaning supplies return to normal levels, another item we take for granted is in drastically short supply: regular pocket change. Banks and businesses…
At  Bellevue Rare Coins, our business is buying gold and selling gold, as well as rare coins, silver, jewelry, and antiques. Every day, people come into one of our five locations with questions about how to start investing in precious metals—or how to turn the valuables they have into cold, hard cash. You’ve got questions….
With the price of gold returning to near-record levels, it’s an excellent time to consider selling your gold coins or gold jewelry that you don’t use anymore. But before you sell, make sure you know the answer to this question: how much is my gold really worth? Evaluating gold is a fairly simple process,…
Across the pond in 2009, a small community in South London created the Brixton Pound, a flashy, vibrant currency complete with portraits of famous Brixtons such as David Bowie. The currency was designed to help support shopping with local small business owners while deterring shoppers from investing in chain stores. Today, the currency…
Gold is the world’s most precious metal. Highly regarded for its investment value along with its malleable, non-corrosive characteristics, gold has almost endless capabilities within the industrial and medical realms. Historically, gold has been utilized in the dental community as fillings, tooth replacements, etc. but now it may hold the key to help the…
Throughout the ages, the United States has some of the world’s most valuable coins. Here are the country’s Top 5 picks based on their current value based on the collector’s ability to find them in uncirculated/mint condition. And also just how much potential the coins have to set you back! 1913 Liberty Head Nickel…
Considered to be one of the world’s most expensive metals, rhodium is rarer than gold and silver combined. Discovered after being isolated from platinum, rhodium was found to be a glittering, crisp reflective metal, silvery-white in color, which is also resistant to corrosion. These metal characteristics make rhodium the perfect metal for jewelry and investment…
Digital coinage has been an up and coming means of currency for a number of years now but most recently within the last two years, two companies have launched their own cryptocurrency backed by one of the world’s most steadfast commodities, diamonds. Both PinkCoin and SparkleCOIN have developed cryptocurrency platforms backed solely by diamonds,…
The forty-sixth element of the periodic table, palladium, was discovered in 1803 and named after an asteroid. More rare than gold or silver, the silvery element is found in only one location in the United States, the Stillwater Mine in Montana, and a handful of others throughout the world. This substance is what gives white…
Coins are one of the most exceptional items in the world of collecting. With various ways to collect coins, the possibilities seem endless. Though some coins are more valuable than others, graded coins tend to fetch the most when it comes time for resale. But what is a graded coin? Who does the grading and…
The United States Mint has issued an abundance of one cent coins throughout the course of its relatively short history. From wheat pennies to Indian heads, below Bellevue Rare Coins presents the Top 5 Most Valuable Pennies to ever make it into circulation. 1944 Steel Wheat Penny Lacking a mint marking, as it was…
Most adults have had some form of dental work throughout their lifespan, which involved a fair amount of metal to be implanted, attached, or otherwise adhered to their pearly whites. One metal dentists love to work with is gold due to the mouths inability to break down or corrode material. But just how many karats…
The 1898 “Single 9” Pond is considered to be South Africa’s rarest form of coin. While greatly desired throughout South Africa, this rare gold coin is hardly known outside of the country. Single 9 Ponds were first created during the Anglo-Boer War, a period during the latter 19th Century when the British and Afrikaans…
