While there were some new highs reached with most if not all the precious metals, this week ended with platinum and palladium down in price quite a bit. Of course I could have told you this was going to happen 5 days ago after I made another purchase. I picked up 2 $50 American Platinum Eagles (1/2 oz) and 4  1oz. bars of palladium. Only saving grace was that I bought via Nucleo and the ask price was relatively low compared to the spot at the time. Gold & silver both reached new highs but settled back to what has become a new base at around $20 an oz. for silver and gold at $972. Fractional coins, those in weights less than 1 oz. usually carry a price premium above the weight greater than the premiums for 1 oz. coins. Ebay this week had some good deals on the 1/2oz.   .999 gold First Spouse coin issued by the U.S. Mint starting last year. There were several offered at buy it now prices under $500 at the time the gold spot was around $985, and even though gold has dropped back to $974 the auction prices are mostly above $500 currently. The 2007-W SAE's dropped slightly to $26 to $30 for ungraded coin auctions.