Where Can I Sell Silver exists to answer the question in its name honestly. Most pages that rank for it belong to a single buyer and end in that buyer’s form. This site starts with what you have, because where to sell silver depends on whether it is bullion, sterling tableware, jewelry, scrap, coins or plate.
What this site is
Where Can I Sell Silver is an independent referral service, not a buyer, pawnshop or dealer. When you call or send the form, your details go to an independent buyer in New York who makes any offer. The site does not buy, test, weigh, grade or appraise silver itself, and it holds no silver.
The line is answered from New York City, and you can ask from anywhere in the United States. The buyers this line connects you with work in New York, where city rules set out what a business that buys used jewelry and precious metal must do.
What the guides here are built on
The guides on this site use published standards and official sources, cited where they are used:
- The Federal Trade Commission’s Guides for the Jewelry, Precious Metals, and Pewter Industries (16 CFR Part 23), for what ‘sterling’, ‘coin silver’, ‘925’ and ‘plated’ mean.
- The Coinage Act of 1965 and 31 U.S.C. 5112, for US silver coins and the American Silver Eagle.
- NIST Special Publication 811, for the troy ounce, grams and pennyweights.
- New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, for the rules that licensed secondhand dealers follow.
- The IRS, for what the instructions for Form 1099-B and Topic 409 say about precious metals and collectibles.
- The 47th Street Business Improvement District, for the Diamond District.
No prices are printed anywhere on the site. Silver’s spot price changes daily, so a figure on a page would mislead you by the time you read it. Instead, every guide shows how to work out the melt value of your own silver from its weight, its fineness and the day’s spot price.
What this site will not tell you
- It will not promise a price or an offer. Only a buyer who has looked at your silver can make an offer, and you are always free to refuse it.
- It will not give legal or tax advice. Where taxes come up, ask a tax professional.
- It will not tell you a piece is real or valuable from a description alone.
Why the site is buyer-neutral
A guide written by a buyer has a reason to steer you toward that buyer. This one does not name or rank buyers, and it explains each kind of buyer, from bullion dealers to estate dealers, so you can judge for yourself which suits your silver. When you ask through this site, your request goes to one independent buyer in New York, and you remain free to ask others as well.
How to ask
Call the number on this page, or describe your silver on the contact page. Asking is free and you never have to sell. If you want to read first, start with sell silver, or go straight to the kind you have: sell sterling silver, where to sell silver bars or where to sell scrap silver.
Describe your silver