Blount County, Tennessee
Maryville is a tight-knit community with a strong tradition of family ownership — of homes, businesses, and the gold jewelry and coins that pass from one generation to the next. When it's time to sell, we make the process easy, honest, and worth your while.
Get a Free Quote →From downtown Maryville near the courthouse square to Friendsville, Townsend, Louisville, and the rural stretches of Blount County — East Tennessee Gold Buyers serves the entire area. We're not a big chain, and we're not a pawn shop. We're dedicated precious metals buyers who have built our business on transparency.
If you've got old jewelry collecting dust in a drawer, a coin collection you inherited but don't know what to do with, or silver flatware from an estate you're settling — we'll give you a fair assessment and a real offer, every time.
Our pricing is simple: we take the current live spot price, apply your piece's karat purity and weight, and offer you a strong percentage of the resulting melt value. We show you every step of the calculation before you make a decision. Cash in hand, same day.
Three steps, no surprises. Walk-ins welcome — no appointment needed for most transactions.
Bring whatever you're thinking of selling — jewelry, coins, bars, silverware, dental gold. There's no minimum and no judgment on condition. A broken bracelet pays exactly the same as an intact one, by weight and karat.
We confirm the karat with professional testing and weigh your pieces on a certified scale — all right in front of you. Then we show you the live spot price and walk through the math: spot × purity × weight = your offer. Nothing hidden.
Say yes, get cash. Say no, take your items home. No pressure. Most transactions take 10–20 minutes from start to finish.
Four variables determine the value of your gold. Knowing them helps you walk in with realistic expectations — and lets you spot a lowball offer if you see one.
24K gold is 99.9% pure. 14K is 58.5%. 10K is 41.7%. The stamp on your piece tells you everything — and if there's no stamp, we test it to find out.
We weigh in grams and price in troy ounces (1 troy oz = 31.1 grams). A heavier piece pays more, all else equal. A ring and a bracelet with the same karat and weight pay the same.
The live commodity market moves daily. We use the real-time price at the moment of your transaction — not yesterday's number, not a static posted price.
Most jewelry is bought at melt value. But recognized coins (Eagles, pre-1933 gold) and certain designer pieces can be worth more. We assess each item on its own merits.
Here's what we see most often from Blount County sellers — and what we're always happy to evaluate:
Contact us for our current location. We serve all of Blount County and the Maryville–Alcoa corridor. For large estate lots, we may be able to come to you. Call (865) 486-2284 to discuss.
No paperwork beyond a valid photo ID. Tennessee law requires ID for all precious metal purchases, but there's no requirement to prove ownership through documentation for inherited jewelry. Bring your ID and your items.
We buy the whole piece. Stones may be evaluated separately if they're significant (diamonds, sapphires, etc.), but we'll make an offer on the gold regardless. In most cases the gold is worth more than the stones, but we'll tell you honestly if that's not the case.
Mall kiosks typically pay a lower percentage of spot to cover high overhead and foot-traffic operations. We're a dedicated buyer with lower overhead and higher volume — which means we can offer more. We also show you our math, which most kiosks don't.
Get a free, no-obligation quote from Blount County's trusted gold buyers. Fill in your info and we'll get back to you fast — usually the same day.
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