Coin Dealer Serving Lakewood, TX

Lakewood homes have attics, and attics have coin jars. The Tudors and Craftsman cottages around Lakewood Boulevard, Abrams Road and Lakewood Country Club were built for families in the 1920s through the 1940s, and some of those families never moved. Their grandchildren are now finding what was left on closet shelves. Some of them still have the original milk chute by the back door and a cedar closet nobody has opened in twenty years.

The coins tell the story of ordinary East Dallas life. A streetcar conductor's spare change. A schoolteacher's roll of Mercury dimes. A few silver dollars a grandfather won at a card table and never spent. Most of it is pre-1965 silver, worth more than face value for its metal, and now and then a better date hides in the pile.

Sorting is the job. Chris pulls the 90% silver dimes, quarters and halves out of the copper and nickel, sets aside the war nickels from 1942 to 1945 since they carry 35% silver, and checks every silver dollar for its date and mint mark. You watch the heap turn into something that makes sense. Anything that looks like it might be a better coin goes in its own pile for a closer look under the loupe.

Lakewood also has a creative streak that shows up in what people kept. Musicians, artists and teachers who settled here in the 1970s sometimes brought home world coins or old paper money from their travels. Chris looks at those too, and he will tell you honestly when a foreign coin is worth only a souvenir.

If you are clearing a house by White Rock Lake or along Swiss Avenue, a home visit can save you from hauling heavy boxes down the stairs. Chris comes out for larger collections in Dallas County. For a single coffee can, it is usually easier to book a time and bring it with you. He can sit at the kitchen table, work through the boxes with you, and leave a written list before he goes.

Lakewood neighbors know each other, and word travels fast after an estate sale at a house off Gaston Avenue. A free appraisal before the sale keeps coins from getting priced as trinkets on a card table. Call 469-599-3283 and set a time with Chris first. He calls back the same business day if he is with another seller.