Gold and Coin Buyers Serving Cherry Hill, NJ

Cherry Hill was called Delaware Township until 1961. The building boom after World War II turned farmland along Route 70, Route 38 and Haddonfield Road into neighborhoods like Erlton, Kingston Estates, Barclay Farm and Woodcrest, and many of the first owners came over the bridges from Philadelphia to raise families in a split-level with a yard.

Plenty of those first owners are now in their eighties and nineties, and their children are the ones selling the house. Gold in these homes is usually jewelry. We see 14K chains, charm bracelets, 18K pieces bought on Jewelers' Row decades ago, men's rings, and a dish of broken earrings and single cufflinks. We buy it for its gold, sorted by karat and weighed in grams or pennyweights. Anything signed or antique that may be worth more as jewelry gets set aside, and we tell you so.

Many Cherry Hill households also bought metal as savings. Silver Eagles in mint tubes, ten-ounce silver bars, Krugerrands and Gold Eagles turn up in closet safes and bank boxes. Bullion is priced on weight and purity against the live spot price, so the testing and the scale count most, and both happen where you can see them. A one-ounce Gold Eagle is 22K and weighs 33.93 grams, while a Gold Buffalo or a Maple Leaf is 24K, and the test should agree with what the coin claims to be.

Some longtime collectors in town mailed their better coins to PCGS or NGC over the years and kept the slabs in a desk drawer. A graded coin is priced on its grade and on current collector demand, which can run well above melt for a scarce Morgan dollar or an old gold piece. We look at the coin through the plastic as well as the label, and we tell you plainly when a slab is worth only its metal.

Hotel buying events pass through South Jersey from time to time, and the offers there get made in a hurry in a rented room. We meet by appointment only, in private, with no line and no audience. The meeting is set when you call, an estate with a large collection can ask about a home visit, and every offer comes on paper. You can take payment the same visit or keep everything and think it over.