Sell Coins, Currency, Gold & Silver in the Myrtle Beach Area

No. Walk-ins are welcome during our regular hours, Tuesday to Saturday, 9 AM to 5 PM, and you get the same attention either way.

Booking holds a set time for you, so you are not waiting if somebody is already at the counter. It is worth doing if you are traveling a fair distance, have a large collection that will take a while to go through, or would rather not spread family things across the counter with other customers in the shop.

Yes. You can book an in-store appraisal on our booking page and pick a time that suits you. Your first half hour in the shop is free, with no obligation to sell. If you would like us to keep going past that half hour, it is $35 per hour from there, and most people are never charged anything at all.

Yes. We travel up to about 25 miles from our shop in Longs, South Carolina with no mileage charge, which covers most of the Myrtle Beach area. Estate and collection house calls suit large collections, estates, heavy bullion, or anyone for whom getting to us is difficult. They are $75 plus $35 per hour, and we confirm every one personally by phone before we set out. Please allow about two days' notice.

No, please don't. Cleaning a coin almost always lowers its value, often drastically, and the damage cannot be undone. A genuinely rare coin can lose most of its worth to a few seconds with a polishing cloth. Bring everything exactly as you found it, tarnish and all.

No, and we would rather you didn't. Sorting is where good pieces get separated from the envelopes, tags and paperwork that identify them. We once found an 1850 Charlotte Mint five dollar gold coin in a cloth sack that was on its way to a Coinstar machine. Bring the whole box, including whatever is at the bottom of it.

Absolutely. One coin, one note, a small box or an entire estate. There is no minimum, and we would far rather look at a single jar of wheat pennies than have someone assume it is not worth our time.

Yes. Depending on what they are, common coins can still have value as collectibles or for their gold or silver content. A 1909-S VDB cent — one of the best known key dates in American collecting — turned up in an inherited group nobody had thought much of.

Yes. Gold and silver jewelry, including broken and unwanted pieces, plus sterling flatware and holloware and scrap gold. Jewelry does not have to be wearable or pretty for the metal in it to have value. Bring it along with the coins and we will go through all of it in the same visit.

Yes to both. US and foreign paper currency, including large-size notes, National Bank Notes, obsolete and Confederate currency and other collectible notes. And foreign coins, particularly collectible issues and anything containing gold or silver.

You do not have to know. That is what we are for. Age alone does not determine value: date, mint mark, condition, rarity, collector demand and metal content all play a part, and two coins that look identical to most people can be worth very different amounts. Bring them in and we will go through it with you.

Because you watch us reach it. We go through the collection at the table with you and explain what drives the value of each piece before we talk about money. Bullion is priced against the live metal market, which you can check on your own phone while you sit there. And if a piece would genuinely do better at auction than with us, we will tell you so.

A shoebox of coins usually takes about half an hour. Several albums or boxes can take a couple of hours. A large estate collection may need more than one visit. Telling us roughly how much there is when you book helps us set aside the right amount of time, but a rough guess is fine and you will not be held to it.

On the spot, the same day, once you accept. We will tell you at the time what payment methods we can offer for the amount involved. There is no waiting period and no consignment unless you specifically want to go that route.

That is fine. We will never require you to sell because we looked at your collection or made you an offer. A great many people come in purely to find out what they have. And if a collection carries real family history, or we think you are likely to regret parting with it, we will say so — sometimes that is the most honest advice available.