U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, DC 20549 FORM 4 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 [_] Check box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b). ________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* Smith L. S. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Last) (First) (Middle) 519 I-30, Suite 243 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Street) Rockwall Texas 75087 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (City) (State) (Zip) ________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol DGSE Companies, Inc. (DGSE) ________________________________________________________________________________ 3. IRS Identification Number of Reporting Person, if an Entity (Voluntary) ________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Statement for Month/Day/Year December 30, 2002 ________________________________________________________________________________ 5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Day/Year) ________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Relationship of Reporting Person to Issuer (Check all applicable) [X] Director [X] 10% Owner [X] Officer (give title below) [_] Other (specify below) Chief Executive Officer, Chairman & Secretary ________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check applicable line) [X] Form filed by one Reporting Person [_] Form filed by more than one Reporting Person ________________________________________________________________________________ ================================================================================ Table I -- Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned ================================================================================ 5. 6. 4. Amount of Owner- Securities Acquired (A) or Securities ship 2A. 3. Disposed of (D) Befeficially Form: 7. 2. Deemed Transaction (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) Owned Follow- Direct Nature of Trans- Executin Code ------------------------------- ing Reported (D) or Indirect 1. action Date, (Instr. 8) (A) Transaction(s) Indirect Beneficial Title of Security Date if any ------------ Amount or Price (Instr. 3 (I) Ownership (Instr. 3) (mm/dd/yy) (mm/dd/yy) Code V (D) and 4) (Instr.4) (Instr. 4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 12/30/02 P 200 A 1.00 D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 12/30/02 P 500 A 1.08 1,797,199 D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ==================================================================================================================================== * If the Form is filed by more than one Reporting Person, see Instruction 4(b)(v). Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly. (Print or Type Response) (Over) FORM 4 (continued) Table II -- Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities) ================================================================================ 9. 10. Number Owner- of ship Deriv- Form 2. ative of Conver- 5. 7. Secur- Deriv- 11. sion Number of Title and Amount ities ative Nature or 3A. Derivative 6. of Underlying 8. Bene- Secur- of Exer- Deemed 4. Securities Date Securities Price ficially ity: In- cise 3. Exe- Trans- Acquired (A) Exercisable and (Instr. 3 and 4) of Owned Direct direct Price Trans- cution action or Disposed Expiration Date ---------------- Deriv- Following (D) or Bene- 1. of action Date, Code of(D) (Month/Day/Year) Amount ative Reported In- ficial Title of Deriv- Date if any (Instr. (Instr. 3, ---------------- or Secur- Trans- direct Owner- Derivative ative (Month/ Month/ 8) 4 and 5) Date Expira- Number ity action (I) ship Security Secur- Day/ Day/ ------ ------------ Exer- tion of (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. 3) ity Year) Year) Code V (A) (D) cisable Date Title Shares 5) 4) 4) 4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ==================================================================================================================================== Explanation of Responses: /s/ L.S. Smith December 30, 2002 --------------------------------------------- ----------------------- **Signature of Reporting Person Date ** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a). Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. If space provided is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure.