Augusta Precious Metals Review

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• Corporate name: Augusta Precious Metals, LLC. Founded 2012 per its own home page. CEO Isaac Nuriani; Director of Education Devlyn Steele (per augustapreciousmetals.com/about/).
• Head office at 8484 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 515, Beverly Hills, CA 90211. Secondary office at 5830 East 2nd Street, Casper, WY 82609. Public phone 1-800-700-1008.
• BBB accredited since 2014 with an A+ letter rating on the Beverly Hills profile (per bbb.org). No SEC EDGAR filings on record for Augusta as an issuer (per efts.sec.gov, checked July 2026).
• Industry-reported account minimum of about $50,000. Setup, custodian, and storage fees are not printed on any public page and are addressed during the consultation.
• Sales staff are described on the home page as salaried, non-commissioned educators. Intake framing is Learn, Talk, Decide, per the company's own copy.
• No physical Augusta office in Texas. Every Texas customer opens the account by phone or the online intake form. State income tax is not levied in Texas, which shapes the tax profile of a rollover.

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• Who Augusta Precious Metals actually is
• The $50,000 floor and who Augusta will not enroll
• Fees Augusta discloses, and what stays in the consultation
• What Augusta's public record actually shows
• BBB profile and regulator record checks
• Custodian, depository, and storage disclosure
• The education-first intake, step by step
• How Augusta Precious Metals serves Texas investors
• Worked example: a Texas rollover walkthrough
• Balanced pros and cons
• When Augusta is a bad idea for you
• Our verdict
• Frequently asked questions
• Sources

Who Augusta Precious Metals actually is

Augusta Precious Metals, LLC is a Beverly Hills precious metals dealer that markets a paired self-directed IRA product to Americans in or approaching retirement. The About page names Isaac Nuriani as CEO and Devlyn Steele as Director of Education (per augustapreciousmetals.com/about/, verified via partner-facts crawl May 2026). The company describes itself on its own home page as trusted by American retirees since 2012.

Corporate identity, per the public site, uses two office locations. The head office sits at 8484 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 515, Beverly Hills, CA 90211. A secondary office is listed at 5830 East 2nd Street, Casper, WY 82609. The public phone line for prospects is 1-800-700-1008. There is no Augusta Precious Metals sales office in Texas that we could find on the public site.

The company positions itself around a specific pitch: a phone-only education process staffed by educators rather than commissioned sales representatives. Augusta describes the sequence on its home page as Learn, Talk, Decide, and states that the educator you speak with is salaried and non-commissioned. That framing is the piece of Augusta's identity that separates it from most peer dealers.

Augusta is a private LLC. It is not a public company issuer, and no SEC EDGAR filings are on file under the name Augusta Precious Metals (per efts.sec.gov full-text search, checked July 2026). That is the norm for privately held bullion dealers. Federal securities registration is not required for physical bullion sales under the Securities Act of 1933.

The $50,000 floor and who Augusta will not enroll

Augusta does not print a specific account minimum on its own public IRA pages. Third-party outlets, including Money and Investopedia, have consistently reported an entry threshold around $50,000 in eligible retirement funds. Treat that figure as industry-reported until Augusta confirms it in writing during the consultation, which is where the dealer discloses its actual current terms.

What the floor means editorially matters more than the exact dollar figure. Augusta is not designed for a small IRA rollover of $10,000 or $20,000. A high floor is a two-sided signal. It filters out the readers for whom fixed annual fees would eat too large a slice of returns. It also filters out readers who might benefit from a smaller-minimum dealer with a different service model.

Augusta's own home-page copy leans into education for people already committed to opening an account. Readers still deciding whether a precious metals IRA is right for them at all may find the intake more targeted than a general finance conversation. Nobody can predict where metal prices will go, and a physical bullion IRA is not the correct move for every saver.

Fees Augusta discloses, and what stays in the consultation

This is the wedge for a fee-first reader. A gold IRA carries at least four cost lines. There is a one-time custodian setup fee. There is an annual custodian maintenance fee. There is an annual depository storage fee. A dealer buy-sell spread is built into the price of every coin or bar. Our editorial standard is a written schedule for each line item.

Augusta does not publish a specific dollar figure for account minimum, setup fee, annual custodian fee, or annual storage fee on the pages we captured through the partner-facts verification pipeline. The public headline in this category is a multi-year fee waiver for qualifying rollover accounts. The specific mechanics of that waiver, including qualifying balance and duration, are addressed during the free consultation.

This is not, on its own, evidence of anything wrong. Several dealers in this segment operate the same way, and Augusta positions the consultation as an educator conversation rather than a sales pitch. The point is that fee transparency at the point of comparison lives inside the phone call rather than on the web page. Ask for every dollar line in writing before you sign anything.

What Augusta's public record actually shows

The record you can check as a reader is limited but consistent. Augusta has been trading under its current name since 2012, per its own home-page copy. The company has been BBB accredited since 2014, per the Better Business Bureau profile. It has earned Money magazine's Best Overall Gold IRA Company recognition each year from 2022 through 2026, per the press strip on its own home page.

Investopedia has listed Augusta as its Most Transparent Gold IRA Company from 2022 through 2026, per the same press strip. Neither publication rating is a customer-outcome rating. Each one is an editorial judgment made by the publication about the company relative to its peer group. Weigh them accordingly. They do not tell you what your specific fee stack will be.

The chart above shows the durations, not scores. Twelve years of BBB accreditation and fourteen years of trading under the same name are durability signals. They do not answer the fee-transparency question. They do tell you that the operator has stayed on the public record long enough for enforcement bodies to have found a problem if a problem existed.

BBB profile and regulator record checks

The Better Business Bureau profile for Augusta Precious Metals sits at the Beverly Hills regional bureau. The letter rating on file is A+. Accreditation began in 2014, per the profile, and the company has held accreditation continuously since (per bbb.org, verified via partner-facts crawl May 2026). Confirm the current numbers yourself on the BBB profile before signing anything.

We searched the SEC EDGAR full-text index for "Augusta Precious Metals" on July 5, 2026 and returned zero filings. That is the expected result for a private bullion dealer that does not sell securities. Physical bullion sales are not securities under the Securities Act of 1933. Any complaint or fraud reporting would run through the FTC, the state regulator, and the BBB rather than the SEC.

We also searched the Texas State Securities Board enforcement index for "Augusta Precious Metals" on July 5, 2026 and found no enforcement action naming the company. The CFTC public sanctions API was not reachable at request time and could not be queried in one pass. If a specific enforcement action matters to you, ask Augusta in writing during the consultation and cross-check what you are told at investor.gov.

Custodian, depository, and storage disclosure

Augusta does not custody your IRA account itself. Under IRC 408(a)(2), an IRA can only be custodied by a bank, a federally insured credit union, a state-chartered trust company, or an IRS-approved non-bank trustee. The public Augusta material describes the paired custodian as a qualified self-directed IRA custodian and holds the specific trustee name for the consultation call.

Augusta also does not run a physical vault. Precious metals inside an IRA must be stored at an IRS-approved depository, not at the account holder's home, under IRC 408(m). The company works with third-party depositories that carry IRS approval for retirement account storage. The specific depository or depositories used are addressed during the intake conversation rather than on any public page we captured.

What that means for a diligent reader is direct. Ask Augusta during the consultation for the exact name of the paired self-directed custodian, the exact name of each depository option, and the physical vault address of each option. Ask whether segregated storage is offered and at what cost. Keep the answers in email. Then verify each named custodian at the state-chartered trust company registry or the IRS list of approved non-bank trustees.

The education-first intake, step by step

Augusta describes its intake as a three-stage sequence on its own home page. What follows is what a Texas reader would actually work through, drawn from the company's public copy and standard IRC-408 rollover mechanics. This is not a script from Augusta. It is what you should expect to happen, and it is what you should insist on documenting in writing.

1. Learn from the free gold IRA guide. Augusta offers a free gold IRA company checklist behind a form on its site. Request it. Read the checklist before you talk to anyone. Note the questions the checklist raises that Augusta itself is answering.
2. Book the one-on-one education session. Augusta describes the person you speak with as a salaried, non-commissioned educator. Book the session on the phone number you find on augustapreciousmetals.com. Ask the specialist to confirm their salaried status directly on the call.
3. Request every fee in writing during the session. Ask for the exact account minimum, one-time setup fee, annual custodian fee, annual storage fee, dealer buy premium per coin, and same-day dealer buyback quote per coin. Ask for those numbers in an email you can save.
4. Confirm the source account is rollover eligible. Traditional IRA, 401(k) after separation from service, 403(b), 457(b), TSP after separation, and SEP or SIMPLE balances generally qualify. A pension in payment status does not. Confirm your specific case with your tax advisor.
5. Open the self-directed IRA at the paired custodian. Sign the custodian application, name a beneficiary, and confirm the depository selection on the same paperwork. Ask which specific vault site your metal will occupy and require that answer in writing.
6. Request a direct trustee-to-trustee rollover. The source plan wires the balance directly to the paired custodian. This route avoids the 20 percent mandatory federal withholding and the 60-day redeposit clock that an in-hand check would trigger under IRS Publication 590-A.
7. Sign the buy direction and store the paperwork. With cash sitting in the new IRA, sign a written buy instruction directing the custodian to purchase specific IRS-approved coins or bars from Augusta. Keep every emailed number: minimum, fees, spread, and buyback quote. This is your leverage if a term shifts later.

How Augusta Precious Metals serves Texas investors

Augusta Precious Metals does not operate a physical sales office in Texas. The two listed offices are the Beverly Hills headquarters and the secondary Casper, Wyoming office (per augustapreciousmetals.com, verified via partner-facts crawl May 2026). Every Texas customer opens the account by phone through 1-800-700-1008 or through the online intake form on the company site.

Texas has no state income tax on wages, and no state income tax on retirement account distributions (per Texas Comptroller publication 98-1010, checked July 2026). That shapes a Texas rollover in a specific way. The federal ordinary-income treatment of a taxable distribution is the entire state-plus-federal tax picture. Whether you use Augusta or any other dealer, the Texas piece of the tax calculation stays the same.

The Texas Bullion Depository in Leander is the state-administered vault operated by Lone Star Tangible Assets under contract with the Texas Comptroller (per the Texas Comptroller depository program page, checked July 2026). Augusta does not name the Texas Bullion Depository as an available IRA storage site on any public page we captured. If Texas state administration matters to your storage decision, ask Augusta directly in writing during the consultation whether Leander is on the approved list.

What we could not confirm from the public site is whether Augusta routes any Texas customer metal to a private commercial vault physically located inside Texas borders. Several IRS-approved depositories operate Texas vault sites, including a Dallas-area private commercial vault. Ask Augusta during the consultation for the specific depository address the paired custodian would use for a Texas customer. Require the answer in email.

Worked example: a Texas rollover walkthrough

Balanced pros and cons

When Augusta is a bad idea for you

Our verdict

Frequently asked questions

Sources

1. Augusta Precious Metals, home page, founding, education-first intake, salaried non-commissioned educator model, multi-year fee waiver headline, and press strip. augustapreciousmetals.com, verified via partner-facts crawl May 2026.
2. Augusta Precious Metals, About page, CEO Isaac Nuriani, Director of Education Devlyn Steele. augustapreciousmetals.com/about/, verified via partner-facts crawl May 2026.
3. Better Business Bureau, Augusta Precious Metals Beverly Hills profile, A+ letter rating, BBB accredited since 2014. bbb.org Augusta profile, verified via partner-facts crawl May 2026.
4. SEC EDGAR full-text search, "Augusta Precious Metals" as an issuer or filer, zero filings on record. efts.sec.gov full-text search, checked July 5, 2026.
5. Texas State Securities Board, enforcement records search for "Augusta Precious Metals", no enforcement action returned. ssb.texas.gov search, checked July 5, 2026.
6. Internal Revenue Service, Publication 590-A, distributions and rollovers rules including 20 percent mandatory federal withholding on indirect rollovers and the 60-day rule. irs.gov/publications/p590a, checked July 2026.
7. Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. section 408, individual retirement accounts, trustee eligibility, and IRA structure. law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/408, checked July 2026.
8. Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. section 72(t), 10 percent additional tax on early distributions. law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/72, checked July 2026.
9. Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Publication 98-1010, no state personal income tax reference. comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/publications/98-1010.php, checked July 2026.
10. Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Texas Bullion Depository program page describing the state-administered vault operated in Leander by Lone Star Tangible Assets. comptroller.texas.gov/programs/depository/, checked July 2026.
11. SEC investor.gov, general investor protection guidance for precious metals and self-directed IRAs. investor.gov investor bulletins, checked July 2026.

Reviewed by Harry's Coins Editorial. Last reviewed July 2026.