Coin and Gold Buyers Serving Parker, CO

Parker began as a stage stop. The Twenty Mile House served travelers on the Smoky Hill Trail in the 1860s, and a small farm town grew up around it along Cherry Creek. The town stayed small for a long time and incorporated in 1981. Most of the Parker people know today, with subdivisions spread east and west of Parker Road and out toward E-470, was built after that.

Mainstreet keeps the old-town feel, with the PACE Center, O'Brien Park and the Ruth Memorial Chapel within a few blocks of each other. Around it, neighborhoods like Stonegate, Stroh Ranch and Pradera filled with families over the last few decades, and horse properties and acreage spread east of town. Those two kinds of households tend to call us about different things: older ranch families about inherited gold coins, newer ones about bullion.

Pre-1933 U.S. gold comes out of Parker homes more often than sellers expect. A $20 double eagle holds 0.9675 troy ounces of gold, and both the Liberty and Saint-Gaudens designs draw collectors in better dates and grades. We check each gold coin for date, mint mark and condition. A D on gold struck from 1838 through 1861 stands for Dahlonega, Georgia, while a D on later gold stands for Denver, and both matter to the price.

Bullion buyers here often keep Gold Eagles, Gold Buffalos, Canadian Maple Leafs and Silver Eagles, plus a few bars. Gold Buffalos and Maple Leafs are 24K and Gold Eagles are 22K, but each one-ounce coin holds a full troy ounce of gold. Bullion is priced on the live spot price after it is tested and weighed at the table, and bars are checked for their stamped weight and purity before we confirm both ourselves.

If you search your change for mint errors, bring what you have found. Most suspected errors turn out to be damage or wear, and we tell you so. A true doubled die, off-center strike or clipped planchet gets priced for collectors. Please don't scrape, clean or test a coin yourself before the appointment, because any mark you add can look like damage and lowers what a collector will pay. We set the meeting place when you book, and large estates can ask about a home visit. A government-issued photo ID is needed to sell.