Sell or trade coins, currency, gold and silver in Wilmington
Bring it in as it is. Unsorted, uncleaned, still in the bag it has been in for thirty years. Sorting it yourself does not help and cleaning it usually hurts.
If it is a coin, a note, or made of gold or silver, bring it
The honest answer to "do you buy this?" is almost always yes, or yes but let me explain what it actually is. There is no category of material that is too small or too ordinary to put on the counter.
Trading is on the table too. If there is something in the case you would rather have than the cash, say so and we will work it out as a trade.
What we cannot do is value it over the phone. Condition drives an enormous amount of what a collectible piece is worth, and condition has to be seen. A call is still worth making, because it tells you whether to drive over and how long to allow.
Condition, rarity and the market all move, so no price is quoted on this website. Bring the material in and we will look at it with you.
- US coins, any era
- World and ancient coins
- Silver dollars and half dollars
- Junk silver and 90 percent coin
- Gold coins
- Gold and silver bars and rounds
- Gold jewelry, including broken pieces
- Sterling flatware and holloware
- US paper currency
- Obsolete and national currency
- World banknotes
- Mixed and unsorted lots
- Whole estate collections
- Things you cannot identify
Four steps, and you can stop at any of them
Bring it in
As it is. Do not sort it, do not clean it, do not put it in new holders. Original packaging tells us things.
We go through it with you
At the counter, in front of you. Pieces that need looking at individually get that; bulk gets sorted as bulk.
We explain what is there
Collectible, bullion, or ordinary. Including which pieces you might want to keep rather than sell.
You decide
All of it, some of it, or none of it. There is no pressure to close anything on the day.
Please do not clean anything first
It is the single most common way value gets destroyed before it reaches the counter. A collectible coin carries the surface it has developed over its life, and collectors pay for that surface. Polishing, dipping, scrubbing or even wiping it with a cloth leaves marks that a grader will see immediately.
It cannot be undone. A cleaned coin stays a cleaned coin.
The same applies to paper currency. Do not flatten folds, do not tape tears, do not trim edges. Bring it in exactly as you found it and let us tell you what you have.
Questions we get about this
Not on a weekday. Walk in Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm. Weekends are by appointment, so call 910-520-4708 to arrange one.
No to both. Sorting rarely helps and cleaning almost always reduces what a collectible piece is worth. Bring it as it is.
Not reliably, because condition has to be seen. Call anyway if you want to know whether the trip is worth making.
No. A good share of people come in to find out what they have and leave with all of it.
Then you will be told that, plainly. Knowing something is ordinary is still worth knowing, especially if you were about to be offered money for it elsewhere.
Yes, including broken chains, single earrings, worn rings and pieces nobody in the family wants. Gold is gold whether or not the piece is wearable.
Yes. If there is something in the case you would rather have than the money, we can work it as a trade.