I am not looking to buy any software or books- just to price some coins I found.
2006-06-20 16:31:29 · 3 answers · asked by david a 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Hobbies & Crafts
Hi...I am a coin dealer in the Midwest. Most coin shops/dealers will take a look at your items, give a quick overview and tell you if there is anything valuable, for free...unless you have a huge amount of items that will take a long time to go through...then they will charge you for an appraisal because they will be investing their time in evaluating the items, and their time has value.
What I mean is, if it's just 10 or 20 items that you just want to know "are any of these worth a significant amount?", then they'll tell you for free. If you have 2000 coins and want to know, to the penny, in writing, what each one is worth, then you will have to pay for a written appraisal, the cost of which is based on how much time is involved. Many people need things like this for insurance or estate purposes and the dealer usually charges an hourly rate. And dealers will tell you up front a) if it's even WORTH appraising, and b) if so, how much it would cost.
The best thing for you to do if you don't want to spend any money buying a book... is to go to your local library and look them up in one of the following books: If it's US coins, "The Handbook of United States Coins" (Bluebook- wholesale values), or the "Guide Book of U.S. Coins (Redbook- retail values). If it's worldwide coinage, the "Standard Catalog of World Coins" is an A-Z listing of world coins by country. The values listed are retail, so bear in mind that if you sold your pieces you wouldn't get that price... but the book will tell you what's scarce and what's not. Above all, remember that these are just guides and the market can and does vary greatly on a regular basis.
There aren't really any good FREE sites; most want to charge for the info, and rightfully so...it takes a lot of work to compile the listings and keep them accurate. Any freebie site you may find will have either limited or inaccurate values anyhow.
Hope this info helped.
2006-06-21 10:14:04 · answer #1 · answered by answerman63 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check on EBay..you can find books on eBay too
2006-06-20 23:36:22 · answer #2 · answered by marewka 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
have you tried searching for any?
2006-06-21 03:47:51 · answer #3 · answered by VCfan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋