Coin Buyers Serving Glenview

Navy estates and downsizers in Glenview

People who search for a coin shop in Glenview are often holding a parent's collection and want a coin dealer that buys, close to home. We only buy. Glenview sellers meet us by private appointment, Monday to Saturday, and nothing we see leaves your sight until you have a written offer.

For decades the Navy flew from Naval Air Station Glenview, and the land is now The Glen, with houses and shops where the runways used to be. Some Glenview estates belong to Navy veterans and their widows. A veteran's coin box can hold foreign coins and paper money brought home from overseas, sitting next to U.S. silver dollars and halves saved out of a paycheck.

Silver certificates folded into an old wallet are common in the same boxes. Old foreign bills get the same look as the coins, and we tell you which ones collectors want.

World coins vary more than most families expect. Many base-metal foreign coins bring very little. Gold pieces such as a British Sovereign, which is 22K, are priced on their gold, and silver world coins are weighed for their silver.

We set the handful of foreign coins with real collector demand apart from the rest so they are priced on their own. Silver Eagles bought as gifts for grandchildren also turn up in Glenview homes, and each one holds one troy ounce of .999 silver.

Retirees leaving a Glenview house for a smaller place tend to bring coins in albums, cigar boxes or the cardboard folders sold for filling in dates. At the appointment we look at each one under a loupe for date, mint mark, grade and eye appeal. Circulated wheat cents mostly bring only a few cents each, and we tell you so plainly.

Please leave the coins as they are. Collectors pay far less for a cleaned coin, and a polished silver dollar can lose most of its premium over silver.

Call us and we ring back the same day to set a time and a place. A handful of coins takes about 10 minutes, and a shelf of albums can run 30 to 60 minutes. If you accept, you are paid that day in cash, or by same-day wire for a bigger sale.

Selling takes a government-issued photo ID. If you decide to wait, the written list is yours to keep.