Coin and Gold Buyers Serving Park Hill in Denver

Most of Park Hill was built in the first half of the 1900s on the tree-lined streets east of City Park, and Montview Boulevard still has some of the grandest houses on the east side. Families tended to stay. A home bought by grandparents may have passed to a parent and then to the grown children who call us, and somewhere inside there is usually a set of coin albums that someone filled one penny at a time.

Those albums tell us a lot. Lincoln wheat cents from 1909 to 1958 fill the first pages, Jefferson nickels and Roosevelt dimes follow, and the holes for the scarce dates are often the ones left empty. The coins that are there still count. A Denver cent carries a small D under the date, and some D and S cents in good condition are worth well over face. We check each coin's date, mint mark and grade and never price a better date as bulk. Leave the coins in the album pages and do not polish them, because cleaning lowers a coin's grade.

Silver dollars are the other heirloom these houses give up most often. Morgan dollars were struck from 1878 to 1904 and again in 1921, the only year of the original run that Denver made them, and Peace dollars followed from 1921 to 1935. Both are 90% silver with 0.7734 troy oz of silver in each coin. A Morgan with a D on the reverse came from the Mint on West Colfax, and plenty of east Denver families kept a few in a dresser drawer for the grandkids.

Congress Park and Capitol Hill add paper money to the mix. The old mansions and apartment buildings of Capitol Hill, from the Molly Brown House on Pennsylvania Street to the blocks below the gold-leaf dome of the State Capitol, can hold silver certificates, red seal notes, large-size notes issued before 1929 and National Bank Notes printed with the names of Colorado banks. Denver belongs to the Kansas City Federal Reserve district, so many notes that circulated here carry the letter J and the number 10.

We meet privately by appointment, at a place agreed when you book, and larger collections can ask about a home visit. Sellers need to have a photo ID with them. You get a written, item-by-item offer, and you can take payment the same visit or keep everything and the list.