Have you ever wondered what the tiny words or numbers on your jewelry or silverware meant? If you’re not an expert in jewelry or precious metals, they may be foreign to you – often, a set of three numbers could be interpreted as anything. What does “997″ on silver mean, after all? Does it mean [...]

Precious metals like silver, gold, and platinum have such an inherent value that you can take your precious metals – even your scrap precious metals – and sell them at almost any time. Precious metals are commodities that stand up to market tests and fluctuations, retaining their long-term value even if short-term swings have a [...]

Once upon a time – pun intended – there weren’t many parts to our ways of keeping time. Going back through history, humans might have only gauged the time by the sun or the moon, first simply by gazing toward the sky, and eventually by using objects like sundials and calendars. As our mechanical sophisticate [...]

Of the precious metals, platinum is perhaps the most illustrious, and certainly is the most valuable and rarer. Today, it seems like platinum has been known and used for a long time, and has long since taken its place as one of the precious metals, along with gold and silver. But platinum is a unique [...]