Kingston, Ontario · Serving Eastern Ontario
Inherited a coin collection and no idea what it's worth?
Call us. We'll go through it with you, tell you what's there, and make you one straight offer. Free, no obligation, and we come to you.
Most calls answered the same day. Photos get a reply within a day.
From a Kentucky estate lot. Our photo, unedited. - Free valuation, no obligation
- We come to you, anywhere in Eastern Ontario
- You see the sorting and keep the written valuation
- Paid by cash or e-transfer, same day
- We buy gold and silver, priced against live spot
- World, Canadian and US coins, and the rare ones
- Consignment and live auctions, 20% commission
- Every coin photographed by us, unedited
- Kingston, Ontario, by appointment
- Free valuation, no obligation
- We come to you, anywhere in Eastern Ontario
- You see the sorting and keep the written valuation
- Paid by cash or e-transfer, same day
- We buy gold and silver, priced against live spot
- World, Canadian and US coins, and the rare ones
- Consignment and live auctions, 20% commission
- Every coin photographed by us, unedited
- Kingston, Ontario, by appointment
What do you have?
Pick the one that sounds like you
Not sure whether it's worth a call? It probably is. Sorting the valuable from the ordinary is the job.
An estate or inheritance
Albums, folders, a safety deposit box, the shoebox nobody has opened in years. We take the whole thing and tell you which parts matter.
Book a house call
A few coins
A single silver dollar, a handful of old change, a Spanish piece of eight from a drawer, one coin your grandfather always said was special. Small lots get the same attention.
Send a photo
Gold, silver or scrap
Bullion, bars, sterling flatware, broken jewellery, dental gold. Weighed and priced against the live spot market in front of you, with the arithmetic shown. A much better deal than the pawn shop.
Get today's price
Certified coins
PCGS, NGC and ICCS holders. Priced on what they're selling for now, not on a price guide printed last year.
Get an offerHow it works
Three steps. No pressure at any of them.
Call or send photos
You don't need to sort, identify or clean anything. One photo of everything laid out is plenty. We'll tell you straight away whether it's worth going further.
We value it with you
At your kitchen table or ours. Significant coins one by one, common silver and scrap by weight against live spot. You hear the reasoning as we go.
You decide
A written offer with the valuation behind it. Accept and you're paid by cash or e-transfer. Decline and there's no fee, and you still know what you have.
How we talk about value
Why the price guide isn't the price, and what we can pay
The book value already includes someone else's markup
Price guides are built from auction results, and an auction result includes the buyer's premium: the 15% to 30% the auction house adds on top of the hammer price. So when a guide says a coin is worth $1,000, the person who sold it at auction saw closer to $800, and the auction house kept the rest.
Finding the right buyer can take years
The guide price is what the one collector who wants that exact coin will pay, on the day they show up. For a common coin that's next week. For a better one it can be years of sitting in inventory, being photographed, listed, shown, insured and re-listed while we wait for them.
We're not the end buyer. We're looking for them.
Running a dealership means overhead, staff, memberships, grading fees, shipping, and the cost of holding stock. We need a reasonable margin on what we buy or we can't keep doing it. That's why our offer is below top retail, and why we'd rather explain the gap than pretend it isn't there.
Why sellers call us
We sell what we buy, so we price on today's market
Priced on real sales, not a price guide
We list and sell certified and collector coins every week. We know what things are actually fetching this month, and that's the number you get.
One honest offer, not a haggle
We sort the collection in front of you, tell you what would fetch money at retail and what would not, and make one offer for the lot. We pay wholesale and we say so.
House calls across Eastern Ontario
Nobody should be moving a safe. For estates and larger collections we come to you, Kingston to Ottawa to Belleville, no charge for the visit.
Discretion on estates
Executors, lawyers and families dealing with a loss get a straight process and a written valuation they can put in the file.
Gold and silver
Bring it here, not to the pawn shop
A pawn shop is built to lend against things and move them fast. It quotes one number, usually well under the metal value, and doesn't show you how it got there. We buy gold and silver the way a refiner's customer would: weighed on a scale you can see, tested for purity in front of you, and priced against the live spot market with the calculation on paper.
And because we're coin dealers, we check first. A pawn shop weighs a 1908 Canadian half dollar and pays silver. We recognise it, and pay for what it is.
| Pawn shop | Coin & Co | |
|---|---|---|
| How the price is set | One number, no explanation | Weight × purity × live spot, shown to you |
| What you see | Usually nothing | The scale, the test, the arithmetic |
| Coins with collector value | Paid as scrap | Identified and paid as coins |
| Sterling, jewellery, dental gold | Lowballed or refused | Bought, any condition |
| Where it happens | Their counter | Your kitchen table, or ours |
| Pressure | Decide now | Written offer, take your time |
| Payment | Cash | Cash or e-transfer, same day |
Rather not sell outright?
Consign it, and we sell it for you
Through our eBay store and live auctions. Our commission is 20% of the proceeds; platform fees (5% to 15% depending on where it sells) and shipping come out of the proceeds too, and you're paid as each sale clears. Better coins can reach collector prices this way. The trade-off is time, and an auction pays what the room pays that day.
World coins and the interesting ones
The coins most buyers can't price. We can.
Spanish colonial silver, British and Commonwealth crowns, German thalers, Newfoundland and pre-Confederation issues, Canadian key dates, ancients, errors and varieties. Most local buyers weigh these and pay silver. We attribute them, check the die and mint marks, and price them against what they're actually selling for to collectors.
We buy them, we sell them, and if you only want to know what you have, we'll tell you that too, in writing, for free.
Questions people ask first
The honest answers
Why does a dealer pay less than the price guide?
A guide shows retail: what a coin sells for, after grading, photographing, listing and waiting for the right buyer. A dealer buys wholesale and carries that cost and risk. On strong material the gap is small. On common material it's the difference between a coin and a job. We'll show you which is which.
Should I clean the coins first?
No. Please. A cleaned coin is worth a fraction of the same coin left alone, sometimes a tenth. Dull and dirty is often exactly how a collector wants it.
Should I get it graded before selling?
Usually not. Grading costs money and time and only pays for itself on coins that are already worth a few hundred dollars. We'll tell you if anything in your collection is a candidate.
Looking to buy?
Every coin photographed by us, in hand, unedited
What you see in a listing is the coin you get. No filters, no Photoshop, and more angles on request. Some of what's in the store now:
1860-O Seated dollarKentucky estate lot 
1829 Bust halfSame estate 
1921 Peace dollarFirst year, high relief 
Mercury dimeRainbow toned 
1779 8 realesMexico City, Carlos III Browse the store
Certified and collector coins, bullion, banknotes and estate finds. Every coin photographed by us, in hand, unedited. 30-day returns and tracked shipping on everything.
Open the eBay storeAsk about a coin, or leave a want list
A lot of what we buy never makes it as far as a listing. Tell us what you're hunting and we'll call you first when it comes through. Collectors in Kingston are welcome by appointment.
Find out what it's worth
Free, no obligation, and you'll know more about the collection afterwards than before, whatever you decide to do with it.