Where to Sell (or Buy) Gold, Silver & Platinum in New Hampshire

New Hampshire's dealer law, RSA Chapter 322, lets each city or town license dealers in scrap metal and "second-hand articles" "within their respective cities, towns, or unincorporated places." The license "shall designate the place where the business is to be carried on," and doing business "at any other place than that specified in his license" is an offense. Nothing in the chapter addresses a buyer outside New Hampshire who buys by mail. We have no New Hampshire premises; your items travel to our refinery in Oregon and the purchase happens there.

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Under RSA Chapter 322, a city or town may license dealers in old or scrap metals and second-hand articles (everything except furniture and books), and the license names the one place the business may operate. For each purchase the dealer records a description of the goods, the date and time, and your name and residence, verified with a government-issued photo ID. Police may inspect the shop, its stock and its books, and a dealer licensed for old metals must send the police chief a record of a transaction, with a copy of your ID and a photo of the metal, when the chief asks, and keep those records for 2 years.

State law sets no holding period for gold, silver or jewelry; the 10-day hold and company-check payment rule in RSA 322:16 apply only to catalytic converters. Each licensing board can add its own rules and conditions to the license, so a hold or reporting schedule at a particular shop usually comes from the town. Dealers may not buy from anyone under 16 without written consent from a parent or guardian.

Pawnbrokers fall under RSA Chapter 398, which covers loans on pledged goods rather than outright purchases. No one may take anything in pawn from a minor or a visibly intoxicated person. Pawnbroker licensing is in force only in cities of more than 40,000 people and in cities and towns that adopt it; there, licensed pawnbrokers record pledges with a government photo ID and keep them on the premises for at least 4 months unless redeemed.

New Hampshire is one of the few states with no general sales tax. The state's Department of Business and Economic Affairs lists "No sales tax" among its tax features, so bullion, coins and jewelry bought in New Hampshire carry no tax at the register.

When you sell: sales tax is a buyer's cost in any state, and selling to a dealer is not a retail sale. You pay no New Hampshire tax at the counter when you sell your gold, silver or platinum, whether to a local shop or to us by mail.

New Hampshire does not tax wages or capital gains, and its only tax on personal investment income, the interest and dividends tax in RSA Chapter 77, was repealed effective January 1, 2025. A profit on gold, silver or platinum you sell is not reported on any New Hampshire return.

You still owe federal tax on a gain: the IRS taxes physical precious metals as collectibles, so gains on metal held more than a year are taxed at your ordinary rate up to a 28% cap, and metal held a year or less is taxed as ordinary income. Inherited pieces generally use the value on the date of death as their cost basis. We are not tax advisers, so check with yours before you file.

No New Hampshire statute makes gold or silver legal tender. A 2025 bill that would have done so, HB 721, was sent to interim study by the House in January 2026 and has not become law. That has no effect on selling: buyers in New Hampshire and everywhere else price metal off the live spot market, not face value.