Patent ID: 8321330

Claim:
A method of managing gold bullion transactions at a consumer operated kiosk, the method comprising: receiving, at the kiosk, one or more gold bullion market quotes from one or more market sources, wherein the kiosk is a consumer operated kiosk; determining a gold bullion transaction price for buying or selling gold bullion at the kiosk based at least in part on the one or more market quotes and at least in part on an inventory of gold bullion in the kiosk; presenting the transaction price to a customer at the kiosk to buy or sell gold bullion; and receiving from the customer a request to buy or sell gold bullion at the transaction price; wherein when the request is to buy gold bullion from the kiosk, the method further comprises—receiving payment at the kiosk for the transaction price; and dispensing the gold bullion to the customer at the kiosk; and wherein the request is to sell gold bullion to the kiosk the method further comprises—receiving the gold bullion from the customer at the kiosk; determining authenticity of the received gold bullion at the kiosk, and when the received gold bullion is authentic, paying the customer the transaction price; and when the received gold bullion is not authentic, returning the received gold bullion to the customer.