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About Chards

Author: Lawrence Chard - Chairman and CEO

Published: 4 Jan 2023

Last Updated: 13 Feb 2024

Synopsis

Chards Coin and Bullion Dealer is one of UK's biggest online and retail bullion dealers. Based in Blackpool with over 60 of experience and have over 3000+ 5 stars reviews on Trustpilot! We offer a wide range of products, including gold bars, silver bars, gold coins, silver coins, platinum, and palladium precious metals products.

If you have any questions, please call us on 01253 343081 or you can use our virtual assistant can help you out. 

Award Winning Business

Chards Coin and Bullion Dealer, has been awarded UK’s best bullion dealer of the year, an impressive four times in a row between the years of (2015,2018) before the cancellation by bullion.directory.

The year of 2018 marked the final year of the competiiton for UK's bullion dealer of the year by bullion.directory. In a hotly contested competition which saw over 140 British bullion dealers battle for the title, Chard secured 29.1% of the final vote which featured two of the industry's giants as well as two smaller family run businesses to be voted the 2018 UK Bullion Dealer of the Year. The rivalry between finalists was fierce, as the award was seen as the most prestigious award in the trade.

Customer Support & Reviews

Our staff are available weekdays between 9.30am and 4pm (UTC) for telephone calls and showroom appointments. If our customer service team misses your call please email us at [email protected], or via our Contact Us Page.

What Bullion Bars do we offer?

We offer a wide range of investment bullion bars from the top precious metal refiners in the world! To name just a few of the fantastic world suppliers of precious metals:

These investment bars are available in all types of weights, gold, and silver. Also, a large selection of our bars is LBMA (Good Delivery List) approved bullion meaning the bullion bars have been manufactured to a high standard and will contain a purity of 99.99% (999.9).

What Coins do you offer?

Chards sells all sorts of coins from the newest 2023 Britannia coins and 2022 Queen Elizabeth II memorial sovereign coins to the early AD years of the Roman era. Additionally, at Chards we don't only sell coins the popular coins from the United Kingdom but also the rest of the world thanks to our suppliers and distributors.

Chards sells a large selection of the highest graded coins from notable grading companies such as NGC (Numismatic Guaranty Company) and PCGS (Professional Coin Grading Service) coins on the market!

For investors that are looking for the most popular coins:

Digital Gold & Digital Silver - Allocated Accounts

At Chards we offer investors an alternative way to invest in gold or silver, with our new digital gold and digital silver accounts. Offered as a pre-payment metal account option; we do not consider this a substitute for physical precious metal ownership.

Our savings account is for short term use and all metal is held on an unallocated basis whereas our digital storage accounts are more suited where customers want their balances backed by physical bullion. We actively encourage the use of these accounts to pre-fund physical purchases by adding the buy premium back into your balance at the point of checkout.

Pre-payment accounts are commonly used to navigate situations where banks restrict transfers to £10,000 per day, allowing customers to load up metal in multiple transactions reaching the full balance over a few days or weeks.

Allocated Digital Accounts have storage fees as your allocated bullion is stored in our vaults. The storage fees cover transport, vaulting and insurance and you can follow this link to our vaulted storage fees.

Vaulted Storage

We offer storage services in the United Kingdom and overseas that are low cost and fully insured. This service offers customers an allocated and segregated metal account with discrete, allocated coins and bars.

Customers can choose our dedicated world class storage facilities right here in Blackpool or store bullion overseas in bonded warehouses. For added peace of mind, customer stock held at our storage facilities has been independently checked by Azets.

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