Where To Sell Silver Coins is an independent referral service, not a buyer, pawnshop or dealer. It exists to help people who have US silver coins, from a single Morgan dollar to a family collection, understand what their coins hold and how to sell them well. When you call or send the coin list, we pass your details to an independent buyer in New York, who makes any offer. That offer is between you and the buyer, and you never have to accept it.
Call or list
Call, or list what you have and an offer comes back in writing.
What this site does
- Explains your coins. Which US coins are silver, by date and denomination, and how much silver each holds.
- Shows the arithmetic. How melt value is worked out from the troy weight and the spot price, so you know the floor under any offer.
- Flags collector value. When a coin may be worth more than its silver, and why it should be looked at before it is sold as metal.
- Sets out the rules. What New York City requires of a business that buys coins and precious metal, so you can tell a careful buyer from a careless one.
- Passes your details on, when you ask it to, to an independent buyer in New York.
What this site does not do
It does not buy, test, grade or appraise coins, and it does not make offers. It does not print silver prices or payout figures, because spot changes daily and every offer depends on the coins in front of a buyer. It does not rank or review dealers, and it names none. It gives no legal or tax advice: where a question touches on taxes or ownership, it says so and suggests you ask a tax professional or a lawyer.
Where the facts come from
Every coin weight and date on this site comes from a primary source, not from a dealer’s blog:
- The US Mint’s own records. The Annual Reports of the Director of the Mint give the standard weight and fineness of every US silver coin, the fine silver in a standard silver dollar, and the dates the Washington quarter, Roosevelt dime, Franklin half and Kennedy half were first struck.
- The statutes. The Coinage Act of 1965, a law of September 3, 1964 on the 1964 date, and the law of December 31, 1970 that ended the 40% half dollar and created the Eisenhower dollar.
- The US Code. 31 U.S.C. 5112(e) sets the American Silver Eagle’s size, weight and fineness.
- The FTC’s jewelry guides (16 CFR Part 23) for what sterling, coin silver and fineness marks mean.
- NIST for the troy ounce and the grain.
- New York City’s DCWP for the rules on secondhand dealers, scales, ID and records.
- The IRS for the collectibles tax rate and Form 1099-B.
Who answers when you call
The line is answered from New York City. Calls and coin lists are received by this site, and we pass your details to an independent buyer in New York, who can talk through what you have and make an offer if you want one. You can call from any of the five boroughs or from another state; wherever you are, describing your coins by phone first costs nothing.
Who runs this site
Where To Sell Silver Coins is an independent referral service. It is not a buyer, pawnshop or dealer, and it does not hold or handle coins. Any offer is made by the independent buyer we pass your details to.
Start here
New to this? Read what years are silver coins, then how to sell silver coins. For a particular kind of coin, see sell silver coins, where to sell silver dollars, sell junk silver, where to sell old coins or sell Silver Eagles.
Have silver coins to sell? Call, or send your coin list.
Questions people ask
Does Where To Sell Silver Coins buy coins?
No. It is an independent referral service, not a buyer, pawnshop or dealer. We pass your details to an independent buyer in New York, who makes any offer.
Does it cost anything to ask?
No. Calling or sending the coin list is free, and you never have to sell.
Where do the coin weights on this site come from?
From the US Mint’s annual reports, the Coinage Acts and 31 U.S.C. 5112, not from dealers’ websites.
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