About Joe Agate
Joe Agate is the President of Agate Precious Metals, an online bullion dealer he founded in 2022 in West Seneca, New York. The company sells gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and copper through its retail store and runs a login-gated presale portal for approved dealers.
From West Seneca, Joe runs both sides of a modern bullion business: a retail e-commerce store at agatemetals.com and a dealer presale operation at agatepresales.com. That gives him a working dealer's view of spot-driven pricing, retail buying demand, and the wholesale presale market for new mint releases.
Topics he can speak to
- Bullion markets — how spot-price moves in gold and silver flow through to retail coin and bar prices, premiums, and buyer behavior.
- Coin collecting trends — what collectors and stackers are buying, from 1 oz staples to fractional pieces and pre-1965 90% U.S. silver.
- Fractional gold — why 1 gram and 1/10 oz gold has become the entry point for new buyers, and how its per-gram premiums work.
- Presales and the dealer market — how presale drops and rare mint releases move through dealer networks before they reach retail buyers.
- Small-business e-commerce — selling a high-trust, high-value product online: secure payments, insured shipping, buybacks, and earning buyer confidence without a storefront.
How journalists reach him
Email is the fastest route: support@agatemetals.com — include your outlet, your topic, and your deadline. Phone: 716-829-9997 (the company does not publish fixed phone hours; email works any time). Please attribute quotes to: Joe Agate, President, Agate Precious Metals (West Seneca, NY).
Company facts — founding, location, official websites, policies — are laid out for verification on the Trust & Verification page and in the FAQ. The company logo on this page (logo.jpg) is the current Agate Precious Metals logo.
Company boilerplate — copy verbatim
Agate Precious Metals is an online bullion dealer founded in 2022 and based in West Seneca, New York. The company sells gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and copper coins, bars, and rounds at wholesale-style pricing through its retail store at agatemetals.com, and runs a login-gated presale portal for approved dealers at agatepresales.com. Agate also buys back bullion from the public and takes on custom projects and custom alloys for jewelers, manufacturers, and labs.