A-Mark Precious Metals (founded in 1965 as A Mark Coin Company) is a precious metals trading company. It was the first company allowed to make and sell...

culture, sets of precious substances may form hierarchies which express conventional perceived relative value or merit. Precious metals appear prominently...

Goldline (US) Ltd. was bought by A-Mark Precious Metals Inc, a wholesaler dealer in precious metals, thereby adding a retail presence. In 1992, Deak International...

A hallmark is an official mark or series of marks struck on items made of metal, mostly to certify the content of noble metals—such as platinum, gold,...

Assay offices are institutions set up to assay (test the purity of) precious metals. This is often done to protect consumers from buying fake items. Upon...

rare coins and precious metals. The company was originally known as the A-Mark Coin Company (and later A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc.). A-Mark initially operated...

futures contracts and options on base metals. The exchange also offers contracts on ferrous metals and precious metals. The company also allows for cash trading...

variously as a "golden wedding anniversary", "golden anniversary" or "golden wedding". Associating a wedding anniversary with precious metals such as "gold"...

(formerly DirecTV) direct technology marketing company PCM, Inc., and A-Mark Precious Metals are headquartered there, as well as sporting goods retailer Big...

Artistiques Métaux Précieux) is an independent precious metals refining and fabricating company, and a member of the MKS Group. Established in 1977 in...

a public charity in Santa Monica on July 12, 2004 by Steven C. Markoff, a Los Angeles businessman, who is also the founder of A-Mark Precious Metals and...

tools, pipes, and railroad tracks. Precious metals were historically used as coinage, but in the modern era, coinage metals have extended to at least 23 of...

designs, manufactures, and distributes precious metal products and related services. It is the largest precious metal services group in Australasia. Pallion...

The Mark (from Middle High German: Marc, march, brand) is originally a medieval weight or mass unit, which supplanted the pound weight as a precious metals...

rock band Precious Metal which she joined in February 1984. The band performed at Los Angeles venues such as FM Station, Club Lingerie, Whisky a Go Go and...

The coinage metals comprise those metallic chemical elements and alloys which have been used to mint coins. Historically, most coinage metals are from the...

Troy weight is a system of units of mass that originated in 15th-century Kingdom of England and is primarily used in the precious metals industry. The...

proportion to the total weight which includes alloying base metals and any impurities. Alloy metals are added to increase hardness and durability of coins...

hallmarking of metals in the United Kingdom. Hallmarking is a way to guarantee the purity of precious metals. Metals are tested and, if they meet a certain minimal...

post-transition metals, poor metals, other metals, p-block metals and chemically weak metals. The most common name, post-transition metals, is generally...

A gemstone (also called a fine gem, jewel, precious stone, semiprecious stone, or simply gem) is a piece of mineral crystal which, when cut or polished...

A fourrée is a coin, most often a counterfeit, that is made from a base metal core that has been plated with a precious metal to look like its solid metal...

that determines how many coins of a given type were to be struck from a specified unit of weight of precious metal (the Münzgrundgewicht or coin base...

Imperial Metals Corporation, known as IMI Imperial Metals Inc. until 2002, is a Canadian metals and mining company. Engaging in the acquisition, exploration...

The Utah State Treasurer assigns a numerical precious metal value to these coins each week based on the spot metal prices. The bullion coin types include...

convertible into beaver pelts at a standard rate as well, so this created a viable currency in an economy where precious metals were not valued. However, for...

king's mark as their town mark and the mark of the leopard's head is now internationally recognised as the mark of this assay office. Precious metals are...

Platinum–iridium alloys are alloys of the platinum group precious metals platinum and iridium. Typical alloy proportions are 90:10 or 70:30 (Pt:Ir). These...

"Platinum-Group Metals" (PDF). Mineral Commodity Summaries. United States Geological Survey. January 2007. "Platinum-Group Metals" (PDF). Mineral Yearbook...

Precious Death was a Southern California heavy metal band from the 1990s. The group was known for intense live shows that won over the local scene in L...