Dental Gold
BAJJERFAN
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If you had a bunch of dental gold that had a net of 1.0 ounces of gold in it, about how much would you expect to get for your gold?
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Anybody?
it's late
is the gold off the teeth?
yes just the caps/crowns
Know any jewelers or dentist? $$ signs is a good thing 👍
No LCS here that I'm aware of. Took 2 clean crowns [I suppose you could call it junk gold] to a jeweler/silversmithing place. I asked what they would pay if I had enough crowns to give an ounce of gold. What do you think they said?
i dont know if i want to know
I'll guess that it's well below melt value.
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That's what I thought too. His response was maybe $3700 or whatever 5% below spot was.
Thanks for playing.
That offer doesn't sound unreasonable considering it has to be sent away to be refined and the dealer needs to make a profit to keep the light on. Also, the dealer is risking that spot doesn't fall in the near future.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
I'd say it was darn good considering some of the discussions from the past about what dealers offer for various forms of gold like 15% back for Krands IIRC.
it's as if it was an offer for .9999 , perhaps he didn't understand the weight/dental karat aspects of the question.
but to think, someone could be walking around with a tooth ring if he's got such plans.
Possible he misunderstood, but I did mention it would need refined and he pointed out that gold coins don't need refining. He said they work on a 5% margin. I got $222 for my 2 used crowns. Pretty sure he wasn't born last night.
By chance I asked my dental office what they charge for gold fillings and they said it is $1000 each. It sounded like they almost never do them though at that price level.
My estimate for a 4 piece replacement bridge is around $5300. 2 implants is about $2K less.