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Billings Estate, 2100 Cabot Street, Ottawa May 30, 2011 5:30-8:30 pm Come and learn about Gold and Silver.  Find out how Gold buyers figure out the value of old gold and silver.  It’s an evening of learning, fun and profit.  GoldSmart will assess old silver and gold items and offer to buy that evening.  We [...]

It may actually be worth quite a bit, but the first thing to determine is whether it is “sterling silver” or merely “silver plated” over a base metal.  Sterling silver is an actual alloy of silver, generally 92.5% silver the balance being copper.  Sterling is sometimes marked “.925″ to represent the percentage of silver in [...]

This is a question that is asked a lot, and it has a multiple part answer. When the silver value of old coins grew larger than the face value, people began to hoard the old coins in huge quantities.  Canadian silver coins from before 1967 are worth close to 18 times their face value in [...]

Those ridges on the edge of a coin are properly referred to as a “reeded edge”.  Today the reeding is basically decorative, but back in the days when circulating coins were actually made of silver or gold the reeding served a practical purpose: it discouraged “clipping” the edge of a coin to steal some of [...]

A question we are always asked is “What sort of things do you buy?” Here is a quick list of the things we buy, and that you can sell, that are most valuable: All karat gold jewellery Karat gold watches and watch bracelets Dental gold Platinum jewellery Gold bars and wafers Gold coins Pure silver [...]