Gold Coins
Eagles, Buffalos, Krugerrands, Sovereigns, and pre-1933 American gold. Metal on the bullion, collector money on the coins that have earned it.
Where the West BeginsTarrant County, TX
Cowtown’s local buyers of gold coins, silver coins, rare and certified coins, bullion and full collections. A written, itemized offer on today’s market, and no pressure either way.
Request a quote
Leave your name and number and a buyer calls you back today with a number. No strings attached.
Money the same visit
Cash in hand or a wire that afternoon. Nothing sits on consignment.
One appointment, no line
Book a time and your coins get somebody’s full attention.
Kept between us
No display cases, no audience, no talking about what came in.
All over Tarrant County
Haltom City, Keller, Benbrook, White Settlement, Burleson and out.
Local · In person · Same day
Looking for somewhere close to sell coins or gold? We work from an office near Riverside, northeast of downtown, and buy from people all over Fort Worth and Tarrant County, from Haltom City and Keller down through Benbrook, White Settlement and Burleson. Bring gold, silver, graded rarities, bullion or a whole inherited collection and leave with a written figure the same day.
Every figure traces back to
What we buy
We buy right across the range, from one inherited coin to a lifetime of collecting. Bullion and common material is paid honestly against the live market, and anything a collector would want is read on its own and paid on what it is genuinely worth. Nothing is deducted in fees, nothing goes on consignment, and the figure stands the day it is made.
Eagles, Buffalos, Krugerrands, Sovereigns, and pre-1933 American gold. Metal on the bullion, collector money on the coins that have earned it.
Dollars, halves, quarters and dimes struck through 1964, plus Eagles and rounds. One coin or a full bag, read before it hits the scale.
Holdered PCGS and NGC material, key years, verified errors, proof sets and early American issues, priced off guides and real sale results.
Bars and rounds in gold, silver, platinum and palladium, from a single ounce up to kilo size. Known refiners price closest.
Silver and gold certificates, large-size notes, Texas national bank notes and star notes. The thing sellers write off fastest.
Karat gold in any state at all: snapped, orphaned, bent or dental. Tested and weighed in front of you, 10K through 24K.
Fort Worth money
Fort Worth prints the nation’s cash, its old banks put their names on currency, and its families saved silver for generations. That history shows up in local collections, and we know how to read it.
Printed here
Since the early 1990s the Bureau of Engraving and Printing has run its Western Currency Facility in north Fort Worth, and it prints more than half of all U.S. paper money. Bills made there carry a small FW right before the face plate number. Most spend at face. Star notes, fancy serial numbers and misprints from the plant can bring more, so set the odd ones aside.
Banked here
Before 1935, national banks printed their own name and charter number on the currency they issued. Notes from Fort Worth and Tarrant County banks still turn up in old billfolds and safe deposit boxes, and Texas collectors pay real money for the right ones. The issuing bank and the condition set most of the price.
Earned here
A lot of Fort Worth collections started with wages from the packing houses on the North Side, the rail yards, or the bomber plant out west. Silver dollars tucked away a few at a time. A gold piece bought for a grandchild. A jar of wheat cents. We pull the collector coins out before anything touches the scale.
Found an odd bill or a bank note with a Texas town on it? Call 817-396-5740 and read us what is printed on it.
How it works
Call 817-396-5740 and describe it however you can. "A box of my granddad's silver" works fine. Nothing needs listing or looking up first.
Everything is gone through while you sit there, against the live metals market and what collectors are actually paying. A handful takes minutes. A full estate takes closer to an hour.
A written figure, split into groups, with the reasoning next to it. Ask about any line on it. There is no charge and no expectation either way.
Say yes and you are paid that visit, cash or a same-day wire on bigger totals. Say no and every piece goes home with you, appraisal included.
Questions before you come? Call.
817-396-5740Behind the figure
There is nothing mysterious about a coin offer. Each number rests on public market data and published references, and we would far rather walk you through it than ask you to take it on faith.
Bullion and common coins follow the live market, so the figure moves through the day. A real quantity of clean, familiar material prices tighter than a scattering of odds and ends.
Scarcity is what lifts a coin off its melt value. Years that were struck light, or that simply did not survive in numbers, carry premiums that have nothing to do with weight.
Condition multiplies scarcity. A holdered coin arrives with that already settled. A raw one gets graded conservatively here, because if we are wrong about it that is our problem, not yours.
Same silver, different money
Two Morgan dollars can hold an identical amount of silver and be worth nothing alike. One is a common year, circulated, and trades near its metal. The other was struck thin and rarely comes up, so collectors pay a large multiple for it. Weigh them together and exactly one of those coins gets paid correctly. Curious what the metal alone is worth? Run your own gold and silver through a melt value calculator before you come in.
What you leave with
Each group of coins gets its own line and its own pricing basis, so you can see where every dollar of the offer comes from. Ask about any line. Take the slip across town and compare it. Keep it whether you sell or not.
Here is the layout, so you know exactly what to expect before you call.
Fort Worth Coin Buyers
Written Offer
| Grp | What it is | How it is priced |
|---|---|---|
| A | 90% silver: 40 dimes, 12 quarters, 6 halves | Silver weight × live spot. Share of melt printed on the line. |
| B | Morgan and Peace dollars, 22 circulated | Melt floor, then a premium on any better dates. |
| C | 3 better-date dollars, pulled from group B | Graded at the table. Priced off guide values and recent auction sales. |
| D | 2 × 1 oz American Gold Eagle | Gold weight × live spot, plus the coin’s current premium. |
| E | 14K and 10K rings, weighed in front of you | Karat tested, grams × purity × live spot. |
Where we buy
People come in from all over the county. Some are ten minutes away in Haltom City or River Oaks, others drive down from Keller and Saginaw, or in from Benbrook, White Settlement, Azle, Crowley and Burleson.
A good many turn up after an online outfit quoted them a number off a few photographs. An appraisal done by somebody holding the coins finds value a picture had no way of showing, and it happens often enough to make the trip worth it.
When a collection is large, heavy, or simply not something you want riding in the truck, ask about a buyer coming to it instead. For a real estate that is usually the better way around.
See the whole service area →Straight-line miles from our office near Riverside, northeast of downtown. Big collection? We can come to you.
Why in person
Mailing a collection off means surrendering the only leverage you hold. Across a table, possession is yours until a figure is agreed and you can stop the conversation whenever you like.
The limits are lower than most people assume and a genuine estate can clear them several times over. None of that applies when the buyer is twenty minutes up the road.
Grade turns on luster, on hairlines left by an old cleaning, on die detail a phone camera simply cannot resolve. Those details are the whole gap between melt and a collector number.
A written offer travels. Take it to another dealer, sleep on it, or check the metal math yourself. Anybody who bristles at that has told you something useful.
Versus a pawn counter
A pawn shop buys gold well under the market because it has to move inventory quickly and carry a storefront doing five other things at once. We sell into a network of collectors, investors and auction houses, and that is the whole reason the numbers here can be better.
Market price, weight, purity, and any premium, set out where you can check it. We will show you how to pull up the metal numbers yourself if you want to.
We buy coins because we know coins. There is no script, no closing line, and no reason on earth to rush your decision.
A pawn counter prices an inherited collection by the ounce because that is all it can do. We split it up and pay collector money on the pieces that deserve it.
Cash across the table or a wire the same business day. No consignment window, no waiting to see what it fetches for somebody else.
FAQ
Fort Worth Coin Buyers works out of an office northeast of downtown and buys across the city and Tarrant County. We are numismatists rather than a pawn counter or a jewelry store taking coins on the side, and every figure is built off current market data. Appointments are preferred for collections, so call 817-396-5740 to set one.
Common pre-1964 dimes, quarters and halves are paid as a share of their melt value, worked out from the silver actually in the coins and the price silver is trading at that hour. More of it earns a better share, and better years get pulled out and paid above melt.
No, and this is the one that costs people real money. Cleaning strips the original surface collectors pay a premium for and it cannot be put back. A coin that looks brighter to you routinely sells for a fraction of what it would have. Bring everything untouched.
It comes down to metal content, year and mint mark, condition, and how many are still around. None of that has to be sorted out in advance. Working it out is the appraisal, it costs nothing, and what drives each number gets explained as we go.
Bring it in exactly as you found it, uncleaned and unsorted. The whole thing gets cataloged, the coins carrying genuine collector value get separated from the bullion and face-value material, and you get an itemized written figure. Estates are a large share of the work here.
Yes. On acceptance you can leave with cash up to the daily limit, and larger totals go out by wire the same business day.
American dimes, quarters and half dollars dated 1964 or earlier are 90% silver, so the base follows the live silver price and the weight of silver in each coin. That moves through the day, so call for a current figure rather than trusting a number posted last week.
Yes, along with Buffalos, Maple Leafs, Sovereigns and other government-issued gold. They are paid on weight and fineness against the live gold market plus whatever premium that coin is carrying.
For substantial collections, or when hauling it around is genuinely a problem, a buyer can travel to you anywhere around Fort Worth and Tarrant County. Call 817-396-5740 and we will sort a time.
Ready when you are
Monday to Saturday · 10am to 6pm
817-396-5740By appointment · Written offers · Cash or wire the same day
Request a quote
Leave your name and number and a buyer calls you back the same day.