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| The Gold & Silver Buyer's Handbook by Raffi Katz Ref: BK |
| PART ONE: GOLD AND SILVER Purity, Types of Gold, Not Gold, Hallmarking, Testing, The Gold and Silver Price, Formulae for Calculating Gold Prices, Weights, Gold and Money, Weights and Weighing, Weighing Machines, Valuations, Cleaning and Polishing. PART TWO: BUYING AND SELLING SELLING: Where to sell and how much to expect, Jewellers and Scrap Dealers in Person, The All-Purpose High Street, Secondhand / Loans Shops, Scrap by Mail & from the Internet, Trade Buyers of Scrap and Bullion, eBay, The Internet, Selling from a Website, Knockers, Travellers & Roadshows, Silver. A Word about Style, Scrap Values, Items worth more than Scrap, Selling Tips. BUYING: Buying from Retail Shops, Junk Shops & Antiques Shops, Pawnbrokers, The All-Purpose High Street Secondhand / Loans Shops, Jumble Sales, Garage Sales & Boot Sales, Antiques Fairs & Markets, Mail Order, Auctions, Buying Tips. BUYING AND SELLING FOR PROFIT: Part Time. Full time: new goods, Full Time: Secondhand or Antique Goods, Tips. The Art of Haggling, Avoiding Buying Stolen Goods, Registration for Dealing in Secondhand Goods, Internet Auctions and Online Shops, Creating (and selling from) a Website, Taking Money (payment methods), Buying and Selling Bullion, Tax, Futures Trading, Gold Leasing and Price Fluctuations. PART THREE: USEFUL INFORMATION AND FASCINATING FACTS Foreign Dates & Names On Coins, Pre-Decimal System, Counting Coins by Weight, Rare Coin Dates, Better-than-Gold Bullion Coins, Weights and Purities Charts, Commemorative Medallions, Hallmark Date Letters, Matching Designs on Cutlery, Designs of Chains, More about Paper Money and Gold Money, Calibrating Weighing Machines, About Testing Acids, Gemstones and Gem Testers, Testing and Buying Diamonds, Rates Survey, Birthstones, Useful Contacts, PPS for Credit Cards, Conversions. |