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Gold Fillings
Found a handful at my parent's house when we cleaned it out. Can anyone offer advice on how best to sell it and what to expect?
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06-28-2011, 05:32 PM
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There are people that go to local dental offices and buy old crowns. Talk to your dentist and see if you can get a name.
FYI. It's illegal to sell teeth from crematoriums.... If it's in the body when they die, it's a part of them and have to be buried with it. |
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06-28-2011, 05:38 PM
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My Dad was a Dentist. He said most 'gold' was usually an alloy. Only very old gold was real gold. By the time the impurities were burned off, it was a wash. He always had a drawer full of removed stuff.
Be careful who you tell that you have some. People do stupid stuff for 'gold'. |
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06-28-2011, 06:03 PM
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I recently recieved my fathers coin collection. In amongst everything was a 35mm film jar with several gold crowned molars and some loose gold fillings. No one has any idea who or when these came from.
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I remember when I was a kid, this old guy took a jar full of gold teeth to us and wanted to use it to make a ring for his wife. We send him on his way. first, they are not pure and has a lot of alloy in it. If our assayer see us coming with that jar, he send us on our way. Gross.
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06-28-2011, 10:38 PM
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I'm thinking you're talking about (yellow) gold crowns. Nominally they are 16kt. I can get about $28/gram for them. I usually pay less than that, unless it's some type of kin folk deal.
Jim
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06-29-2011, 03:03 AM
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The dentists that I know recommend you send your old gold to Garfield and provide the shipping stuff.
Try this (turn sound off) and request their shipping "kit" Garfield Gold Exchange-We buy Gold
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