Coin Buyers Serving Berwyn

Saved silver and gold from the Berwyn bungalow belt

Families who look for coin buyers in Berwyn usually live in, or have just inherited, one of the brick bungalows that fill the town. Most were built from about 1910 to 1930, and many have passed from parents to children without ever going on the market. When one finally does sell, the family usually finds coins and gold put away by people who believed in saving.

Cermak Road through Berwyn was long known for savings and loans with Czech roots. People who made a deposit there every week often kept a second store of money at home, in coffee cans of silver change and small boxes of gold.

Those are the estates we get called to most here. Those cans tend to mix wheat cents and nickels with the silver, since people dropped in whatever change they had.

Gold from Berwyn homes is usually jewelry, such as wedding bands and crosses on fine chains. Most of it is stamped 10K, 14K or 18K, which means 41.7%, 58.3% or 75% gold, and some older pieces are 22K.

We sort every piece by karat and weigh each group in grams on a calibrated scale, so a 22K ring is never lumped in with a 10K chain. Now and then a can holds a pre-1933 gold coin, such as a $5 half eagle or a $2.50 quarter eagle, and those are priced on their own.

Silver from these houses is mostly coins. Dimes, quarters and halves dated 1964 and earlier are 90% silver, and Kennedy halves from 1965 to 1970 are 40%. Later coins are copper-nickel clad and worth face value, so we hand those back to you.

Morgan and Peace dollars show up in some cans as well, and we check their dates before we treat any of them as silver. We weigh what is left after the clad coins come out and price it against the live spot price.

Bungalows have narrow stairs and small rooms, and a can of silver coins is heavier than it looks. Families with a large estate often ask about a home visit, and we talk it through on the call.

Otherwise we set a private meeting place when you book, Monday to Saturday between 10am and 6pm. You can sell part of what you bring, get paid the same day and take the rest home with the written list.