American Heritage Minting, Inc.

261 Old York Road, Suite 510 Jenkintown, PA, 19046 United States

215-576-7272

American Heritage Minting is a family-owned coin dealer in Jenkintown, PA, just north of Philadelphia. My father, William Patrick Paul, opened the business in 1973, and I run it today from the same office. We’re a PCGS and NGC Authorized Dealer and a CAC Dealer.

Selling coins? We buy U.S. gold and silver coins, silver dollars, key dates, certified coins, bullion, U.S. paper money, and entire collections and estates of any size. Send photos through the Sell To Us page in our menu, or call 215-576-7272, and we'll usually tell you within one business day what we'd expect to pay; the firm offer comes once we've seen the coins, and you're paid on the spot when you accept. If you're selling a collection or an estate, we make free house calls up to about 90 minutes from Jenkintown. Office visits are by appointment.

We also keep an extensive raw and certified (PCGS & NGC) inventory of U.S. gold, silver, copper, type and scarce-date coins.

— Thomas Paul

 

Estate Coin Appraisals for Executors

If you're settling an estate that includes coins, paper money or bullion, you'll need to know what it's worth. We prepare written, itemized appraisals of coin collections for executors, families and estate attorneys. To schedule one, call 215-576-7272.

Why executors need one

Pennsylvania's inheritance-tax return reports the estate's property at its value on the date of death. The return is due nine months after death, with a 5% discount if the tax is paid within three months. A coin collection is hard to value on your own: price guides give wide ranges, and the difference between a coin's metal value and its collector value can be many times over. Your estate attorney can tell you exactly what the return requires. If you only need a rough idea first, see What's my coin collection worth?.

What you receive

  • A signed, itemized written appraisal: each coin or lot, its description and grade, and its fair market value.
  • The valuation date, usually the date of death.
  • How we reached each value: recent auction records for comparable coins, and metal prices on the valuation date.
  • A PDF plus a printed copy for the estate file.

Values change

An appraisal reports what the collection was worth on one date. Coin and precious-metal prices move, sometimes quickly, so the same collection can be worth more or less later on. An appraisal isn't a standing price or an offer to buy.

We're also a buyer

We buy coins, and we say so up front. The appraisal is independent of any offer, and the estate is free to sell to anyone. If the family later decides to sell and asks us, we'll make a separate offer at current market prices.

Fees and appointments

A written estate appraisal is $250 minimum, which covers the first two hours of work, then $125 an hour. If the estate later sells the collection to us, we credit the appraisal fee in full toward the purchase. Selling to us is never a condition of the appraisal.

Call 215-576-7272, email info@ahmcoin.com, or send us a note through our Contact page to schedule.

We see clients by appointment at our Jenkintown office, and for larger estates we come to you, up to about 90 minutes from Jenkintown.

Before we look

Please don't clean the coins, and leave them in their original holders, albums and rolls. Cleaning can cut a coin's value by half or more, and it can't be undone. More tips in Selling an inherited collection.

Buying and appraising coins in Jenkintown since 1973 · PCGS and NGC Authorized Dealer · CAC Dealer.