Coin Buyers Serving Skokie

Selling coins from a Skokie family home

Many Skokie calls come from grown children clearing out a parent's house who searched for coin buyers in Skokie. A large part of the village filled in after World War II, when young families left the city for a yard of their own next door to Evanston.

Most of those parents are now in their nineties or have passed away. The coins they put away decades ago are coming out of closets and dresser drawers.

That generation saved on a schedule. Proof sets ordered from the Mint each year often sit together in one shoebox, and the sets dated 1964 and earlier hold 90% silver coins. Mint sets of uncirculated coins often turn up beside them.

Rolls of dimes and quarters pulled from change are common too, along with Kennedy halves from 1965 to 1970, which carry 40% silver. We count that silver by face value and weigh it, then go back through it for better dates before we price the lot.

The CTA Yellow Line links Skokie to the rest of the L, so a son or daughter living in the city can come up and sit in on the appointment with a parent. Some families would rather meet somewhere they already know.

We settle the meeting place when you book. With a big collection, you are welcome to ask whether a home visit makes sense.

When several siblings share an estate, the written offer heads off a lot of arguments. Every coin or lot gets its own line and its own price, so everyone reads from the same sheet, including a brother or sister who lives out of state and could not be there.

A family that wants to talk it over can leave with the coins and the list. The appraisal costs nothing either way.

A Skokie estate rarely stops at coins. The same dresser often holds a box of 14K and 18K chains and a few rings with broken settings. Gold-filled pieces can look the same at a glance but hold very little gold, so we set them apart first.

We sort the real gold by karat and weigh each group in grams on a scale you can read. Sellers show a government-issued photo ID, and payment comes that day in cash or, for a larger sale, by same-day wire.