Hicks Coins buys gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and the precious-metals items that often turn up alongside a coin collection. One expert, one fair offer, anywhere in the DMV.
When estates and long-time collections are sorted out, coins are rarely the only precious metal in the box. Sterling silver flatware, sterling holloware, gold scrap, vintage jewelry mixed in with coin holders, platinum coins from the 90s and 2000s, palladium bullion experiments, all of it shows up in DMV households alongside the coin collection itself.
Rather than send you to three different buyers (one for coins, one for sterling, one for scrap gold), Hicks Coins handles the precious-metals side of an estate or collection in a single visit. That’s simpler for you and often produces a meaningfully better aggregate price than fragmenting the sale.
I quote and buy gold (all karats, all forms), silver (sterling .999 fine, coin silver), platinum (American Platinum Eagles, Canadian Platinum Maple Leafs, platinum jewelry), and palladium (American Palladium Eagles, palladium Maple Leafs). Quotes track the live spot markets for each metal, you can always verify the numbers against any major dealer’s pricing page.
All gold coins, US and foreign, see gold coin dealer page for full details.
Morgan dollars, junk silver, American Silver Eagles, see silver coin dealer.
Gorham, Wallace, Tiffany & Co., Reed & Barton, International, Wallace, Towle. Full place settings, serving pieces, mixed lots.
Tea services, trays, candelabra, pitchers, bowls. Hallmarked sterling and continental .800/.900 silver.
Damaged jewelry, single earrings, dental gold, class rings, broken chains. All karats, 10K, 14K, 18K, 22K, 24K.
American Platinum Eagles (1997+), Canadian Platinum Maple Leafs, Australian Koalas, platinum bars.
American Palladium Eagles, Canadian Palladium Maple Leafs, palladium bars.
Mixed estates, coin collection plus sterling plus scrap gold plus bullion. Quoted as a coordinated package.
Pre-1965 US silver coinage quoted by face value at live spot.
Liquidating an estate’s precious metals through one credentialed buyer is consistently better than splitting it across three or four specialty buyers. You make one phone call, schedule one appointment, sign one transaction, and walk away with a single payment.
And because the dealer can offer something extra on the coin side to win the sterling, or something extra on the bullion side to win the scrap gold, the aggregate offer is almost always higher than what you’d get optimizing each category separately. More on estate liquidation.
Get an Estate-Wide QuoteCoins, sterling, jewelry, one expert, one appointment, one fair offer.