Coin Buyers Serving Media, PA

Media has been the Delaware County seat since the middle of the 1800s, when county business moved up from Chester, and the courthouse still sits in the center of town. A lot of estates get settled here. Coin collections often surface for the first time in that process, when a will is read and someone remembers the locked box on the top shelf of a parent's closet.

The trolley still runs down State Street past the Media Theatre and the restaurants, and the side streets on either side are lined with older twins and single homes that have stayed with one family for decades. Sellers from those blocks usually call us while they are clearing out a mother's or father's house. We see proof sets ordered from the Mint every year from the 1950s on, Kennedy halves kept in a coffee can, Morgan dollars wrapped in tissue paper and cigar boxes of wheat cents nobody has sorted since the 1970s.

Swarthmore grew up around the college Quakers founded there in 1864. Faculty families and longtime residents in Swarthmore, Wallingford and Rose Valley often kept tidy, labeled collections, such as a grandfather's type set of Seated Liberty silver or a run of Indian Head cents pressed into cardboard folders. Those collections are well organized, but the labels almost never say what the coins bring today. Out toward Ridley Creek State Park and Tyler Arboretum, larger properties sometimes hold larger lots, with gold coins and bullion mixed in among the albums.

Executors and siblings make up a big share of the people we meet from central Delaware County. Our written, item-by-item offer helps when three or four heirs need to look at the same numbers, and an estate attorney can keep a copy with the rest of the file. Before anything is priced, we separate collector coins from melt coins, so a scarce-date Indian Head cent or an early proof coin is never lumped in with junk silver and paid as metal.

Each meeting in Media is private and is set up when you book, and a family with a whole house of coins can ask about a home visit. You watch every step, from the check of date, mint mark and grade to the non-destructive metal test and the calibrated scale. If you accept, you are paid at that same visit. If you decline, you keep every coin along with the written list.