A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc. operates as a precious metals trading company. Its products include gold, silver, platinum, and palladium for storage and delivery in the form of coins, bars, wafers, and grain. The company also provides services, such as financing, leasing, consignment, hedging, and a range of customized financial programs. It serves coin and metal dealers, investors, collectors, mines, manufacturers, refiners, jewelers, investment advisors, merchants, commodity brokerage houses, and central banks in North America and internationally. The company was founded in 1965 and is based in Santa Monica, California. A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Spectrum Group International Inc.