Sell World and Ancient Coins in Denver

Plenty of world coin collections in the metro started with a military move. Families tied to Buckley in Aurora, and veterans living all over the suburbs, came home from overseas postings with jars of foreign change and now and then a gold piece bought on leave. Decades later, a son or daughter finds the jar in a closet and calls us to find out what is in it.

Other collections arrive with a family's history. Families who came to Denver from Mexico, and their children and grandchildren, often hold Mexican silver or a Centenario kept as savings. Households with British roots bring sovereigns. Old north Denver families in the Highlands sometimes have lire and older European silver. Newer immigrant families, settled from Aurora to Westminster, bring coins from Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe that we sort the same careful way.

The gold coins are easy to price because their content is fixed. A Mexican 50 pesos Centenario holds 1.2057 troy ounces of gold. A Krugerrand and a British Sovereign are both 22K, and a Canadian Gold Maple Leaf is 24K. Pandas come in silver and in gold, and we price each by its metal and any collector demand for the year.

Ancient coins take more care. Greek and Roman coins turn up in estates of people who traveled or taught history, and genuine ones are often worn and a little irregular. Tourist copies are common, so we look at every piece closely and tell you if one looks like a modern reproduction. A genuine Roman bronze worn nearly smooth may still interest collectors, and a shiny copy that looks perfect usually does not.

Then there is the coffee can of foreign change from twenty years of trips. Most modern base metal coins have little resale value, and we say so before you haul a heavy bag anywhere. Older Canadian and European coins with silver in them can be hiding in the mix, and we pick those out coin by coin. Mexican silver pesos from older years tend to turn up in these cans too, tucked among the newer coins.

Everything is sorted at the table in front of you. Each gold or silver coin gets its own line on the written offer, and the rest is grouped. Accept and you are paid the same visit. Call 303-401-0104, and we return calls the same business day.