Never clean your coins, Never!
Always hold the coin by its edges the oils on your fingers can do permanent damage to coins especially precious metals.

Use cotton gloves to handle valuable coins to prevent fingerprints appearing on the coins. Coins, in my opinion, should never be cleaned. Cleaning damages the coin and cause discoloring.

Do not use soft vinyl flip coin holders. They contain PVC which can give the coin a greenish tint after time and cause pitting.

Coins should be Keep in an air tight container or a 2x2 dust free flip. If a coin is in a holder leave it in the holder. Breaking open the holder is never a good idea. Doing so, decreases the value of the coin especially from a mint-issue package.

If a minted coin has a holder, then the container is part of the set - meaning it’s intended to be intact. The package it was shipped in is equally important. Many proof sets or flat packs are delivered in an envelope and not having this envelope reduces the value of the coins

About Selling Coins

About once a month I go traveling and visit a few pawn shops and coin dealers in the area. I have been doing this for about 3 years now. I do it mainly for research but it's a little fun as well. My last trip, I visited 4 stores in the area including Walled Lake, Howell and Brighton. I took three coins with me; a silver dime, a silver dollar and an old large cent. Total value that I paid for these coins was about $80.00. In general I was only offered 10x face for the silver and no one was interested in buying the Large cent. So the coins that I paid right around $80.00 for were valued at about $10.00 in the Brighton area.

This is just an example of why if you are looking for cash, and you want to get more of it, then you should certainly use my services. I will keep this updated as often as I can and let you know if and when something changes but for now I have to say that I am your best shot at getting close to market value for you collectibles.

And one more thing that stood out, was that one of the Coin Dealers that I paid a visit to wasn't even interested in making me an offer. pitiful!