Coin Buyers Serving Elmhurst

Selling coins and gold in Elmhurst

Elmhurst is an older DuPage County suburb, home to Elmhurst University, with York Road running north and south through town and the UP-West Metra line carrying commuters into the city. Plenty of its brick and frame houses have stayed in one family for decades. When people look for coin buyers in Elmhurst, the call usually comes from a son or daughter who has started clearing a parent's house and found a cigar box or a canvas bank bag at the back of a dresser.

The coins in those boxes tend to come from a parent who saved what passed through their hands. Dimes, quarters and halves dated 1964 or earlier are 90% silver, and a dollar of face value in those coins holds about 0.715 troy ounces. Kennedy halves from 1965 to 1970 carry 40% silver.

Mixed in, we sometimes find a Columbian half dollar, the 1892 and 1893 souvenir sold for $1 at the fair in Jackson Park. A worn one brings a little more than its silver, and one with sharp detail and original luster brings more.

Hobby collections are the other common find on Elmhurst blocks. Blue folders of Lincoln cents and Jefferson nickels sit on closet shelves next to stacks of Mint proof sets still in their original packaging. Silver proof sets carry 90% silver coins in many years.

Wheat cents fill a lot of those folders too, and in circulated grades most bring only a few cents each, which we tell you before anything is weighed. We look at each coin under a loupe for date, mint mark, grade and eye appeal, so a better date hiding in a folder gets priced as a collector coin.

Appointments run Monday to Saturday from 10am to 6pm, and we settle on where to meet when you book. A small box takes about 10 minutes to price, and a full estate can take 30 to 60. If the collection is too heavy to carry, ask about a home visit when you call.

The offer is written one line per item, which helps when brothers and sisters are splitting an estate or an executor needs a record. Bring a government-issued photo ID if you plan to sell. Accepted items are paid that day in cash, or by same-day wire for a larger sale, and anything you pass on goes home with you along with the list.