Collectors & visitors
For shop visitors & collectors
Plain-English guides: visiting coin shops, collectible vs bullion investing, and the full path of physically owning gold and silver.
New: the full library — Coins, gold, and money.
For collectors, heirs, and first-time visitors. Real-world notes from people who work a coin counter — not engagement bait.
Tools: mint marks & key-date pull lists
- Where is the mint mark? — diagrams by series
- Wheat cent key dates (no prices)
- Buffalo nickel key dates (no prices)
- Morgan dollar key dates (no prices)
Age vs rarity
Visiting shops & pricing reality
- First visit
- Knowing what you have
- Melt value before you visit — metal at today’s spot, not a shop bid. Melt Prices at the kitchen table.
- Golden dollars (not gold) · Gold Buffalo · Gold Eagle 1 oz · Roosevelt dime 1964/65 · Peace dollar
- Why apps & Google “worth” searches lie
- Tiny gold / use gold
- Red Book is not a buy list
- Why the offer felt low
How the counter actually works
- Why they asked for your ID — cash, Form 8300, not a booking photo
- Gold IRA commercials — fees, “free” silver, getting out
- Don’t clean the coins — the fastest way to kill collector value
- Inherited metal
- Fakes and tungsten
Find dealers: CDXList.com · NumisQ Shops · NumisQ Learn.