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Selling Gold Jewelry

  Estate jewelry that always has value is any gold jewelry or coins. Therefore, Cook County Buyers is always interested in purchasing estate gold jewelry, gold watches, and gold coins. We always pay at least 75% of full melt value for your gold and even higher percentage for larger quantities. We always pay at least 90% of market value for your gold coins and gold bullion.

  If you have a small sandwich bag that is halfway full of gold jewelry that can easily be worth thousands of dollars! We are confident that we can pay you the most for your gold items, give us a call or text today to get started with a free instant estimate.

  We are the only Chicago area estate Gold Jewelry buyer looking to procure genuine Gold Jewelry from brands including Breitling, Cartier, Chanel, David Webb, David Yurman, Fope, Fred Paris, Georg Jensen, Graff, Ilias Lalaounis, Ippolita, John Hardy, Lagos, Levian, Mikimoto, Piaget, Roberto Coin, Rolex, Scott Kay, Simon G., Tacori, Tiffany & Co., and Van Cleef & Arpels.

Cook County Buyers is always interested in purchasing gold jewelry, gold watches, and gold coins. We always pay at least 75% of full melt value for your gold and even higher percentage for larger quantities. We always pay at least 90% of market value for your gold coins and gold bullion.

Sell Gold Jewelry

 We buy any and all gold jewelry

Back around 2008, the price of gold was booming! Hundreds of Cash for Gold stores popped up on corners in every neighborhood. These “fly by night” gold buyers would take advantage of naïve sellers and pay them very low amounts for their gold, around 10 to 20% of full melt value. Well, this didn’t work for long. Within a few years, the big gold rush was coming to an end and much of the gold for sale had already been sold. Only the strongest paying, most ethical buyers stayed in business.

Since our start in 2011, Cook County Buyers has been committed to always paying at least 75% of your gold’s value and even more for larger quantities. Because of this, we have stood the test of time by doing the right thing. If you have gold jewelry to sell, you can rest assured that you will get a fair price when you sell your gold to Cook County Buyers. We believe in total transparency so we are always willing to tell you our exact daily buy price via phone or text first, before setting an appointment to sell.

Now, since te beginning of 2024, we are experiencing all time record high gold prices, we have never seen such a strong run in the price!

Below are the current prices we are paying per gram with the gold price set at $2400 (because gold price fluctuates daily, I have chosen the current gold price at the time of writing this info)

● 10k gold $24/ gram or higher for larger quantities.

● 14k gold $34/ gram or higher for larger quantities.

● 18k gold $43/ gram or higher for larger quantities.

● 22k gold $53/ gram or higher for larger quantities.

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Sell Scrap Gold

 Paying at least 75% of your gold’s value

Generally, any gold item has an intrinsic value based simply on the amount of gold it contains. So, for items that are not resalable, such as basic gold chains, bracelets, earrings, etc., the price will be based on the gram weight of the gold and the purity level of the gold.

Cook County Buyers always pays at least 75% of the full “melt value” of your scrap gold items. For quantities of 100 grams or more, we pay 80%. And sometimes even higher rates for very large amounts of gold!

For example, with gold at $2400 per ounce, here are the minimum payouts for the different purities of gold per gram.

  • 10k gold $24/gram
  • 14k gold $34/gram
  • 18k gold $ 44/gram
  • 22k gold $54/gram
  • 24k gold $58/gram
  • CCB pay-out is higher for larger quantities.

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Sell Gold Coins

 Cook County Buyers is proud to offer no less than 90% for any gold bullion or bar, and up to 100% of market value (depending on market demand)

For government-issued gold coins including American gold eagles, Canadian gold Maples, Krugerrands, Pandas etc. Gold coins, bars and bullion are now in very high demand as people flock to a safe store of value for their money. Due to this new demand and all time high prices, we have adjusted our purchase prices up to remain competitive in this new market.

Contact Mike now via text message or give him a call, and set up a same day appointment to sell, or request a free insured FedEx shipping label if you prefer. We buy all American gold coins including Gold American Eagle coins, both modern and antique. Modern gold eagle coins that we buy include 1 oz, ½ oz, ¼ oz, and 1/10 oz gold eagle coins. The smaller weights below 1 ounce are called fractional, and we pay a small premium for these.

Antique gold American coins that we buy include the $20 double eagle, the $10 eagle or Liberty Head gold coin, the $5 ½ eagle or Liberty Gold coin, the $2.50 ¼ eagle gold Indian head coin, and the $1 gold coin. These are the most common ones but we are interested in any and all old American gold coins. Please inquire for more info on the value of your antique gold coin.

We also buy Canadian gold Maple coins, South African Gold Krugerrand coins, Austrian Philharmonic gold coins, Australian Kangaroo gold coins, Chinese Panda gold coins, Mexican gold Pesos and Libertads, and British gold sovereign coins just to name a few. We are interested in any authentic gold coin from around the world.

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Sell Gold Bullion

 Gold bar authentication

We buy any authentic gold bullion, coins and bars. We always pay at least 92% of market value for your gold bars, and more for larger quantities. Gold bars can come in weights as small as 1 gram and as large as 1 kilo, however, we only buy up to 10 ounce size gold bars and bullion. Some common brands of gold bars gold coins and gold bullion that we typical see for sale are Pamp Suisse, Credit Suisse, Perth Mint, Apmex, and Valcambi Suisse. To receive the most for your gold bars, please have proof of purchase for authentication purposes.

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Sell Gold Watches

 We Buy Rolex

The majority of the gold watches for sale are valued for their weight in gold only. If you have a heavy solid gold watch from the 70’s 80’s or 90’s it will most likely be worth the gold value alone, however there are a few nicer brands that will command a small or even large premium. Please send pictures of your gold watch for sale, and we will let you know if your watch is worth more than gold value.

A typical ladies 14k gold watch will have anywhere from 15 to 50 grams of gold depending on the style. This would translate into $270 to $900. A typical men’s gold watch will have on average around 40 to 100 grams of gold. This would translate to $720 to $1800 again depending on the style.

If you can weigh your gold watch, and tell us if it is 10k 14k, or 18k gold, we can give me a realistic estimated of value. (We must estimate the weight of the movement, crystal, and other non-gold parts and subtract this from the weight). But with a couple good pictures, we can easily give you a very accurate estimate of your gold watch’s value.

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