I have thousands of coins, from all over the world, given to me from my Grandma. He travelled the world in the 40-50s. What is the best way to have them valued? I am afraid of them getting stolen or under-valued.
2006-09-25 08:07:27 · 3 answers · asked by BillyBoy 2 in Games & Recreation ➔ Hobbies & Crafts
You need a dealer in World Coins. A regular dealer in U.S. coins has no idea of their real value. As for not letting the coins out of your sight, the guy must be paranoid. A dealer has a reputation to keep, at least the world coin dealers are a lot more honest and helpful, than the quick buck U.S. coin dealers. See if you can get hold of Krause/Mishler Standard Catalog of World Coins. It takes several catalogs to cover all the year from the 1600's to 2006. A library should have at least the newer ones covering the coins you have. You then can look them up. You will get about 1/2 the price listed maybe less, or if rare more than the price listed or close to it. Not to many world coins from the 1940's or 50's are valuable and usually only the silver ones are easy to sell. Very few people in the USA collect minor coinage of other countries. I know of no one, that say collects German 1 pfennig coins, of course the Germans do. I have the books and could help, but you would have to send me a list and the coins also need to be graded. It would be very time consuming on your part, to check them out on EBay, if you have a lot of coins. Two outstanding world coin dealers are Bob Reis, reisbiz@earthlink.net and frank Robertson frank@fsrcoin.com, there are others get a copy Of World Coin News comes out once a month.
2006-09-25 12:10:06 · answer #1 · answered by Taiping 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First where ever you take them DO NOT let them take them out of your sight, some collectors have been known to swap them with less value ones. I would start by taking them to as many as 5 different collectors and that should give you a round about pricing also check sites like ebay and coin collector site for the same type
2006-09-25 08:11:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can try these site's on the net.
www.heritagecoin.com
search: amazon.com:coin appraisal
search: sotheby's
2006-09-26 04:03:23 · answer #3 · answered by Jamie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋