Coin Dealer Serving Preston Hollow, TX

Behind the gates on Strait Lane and along the long lots off Walnut Hill Lane and Royal Lane, a lot of Dallas wealth sits quietly. Preston Hollow was country estates when Dallas money first moved north, and today it mixes old ranch houses on two acres with new builds that went up where the old ones came down.

That turnover is often why the neighborhood calls. A home is being sold or torn down, and the family finds a floor safe in a closet or a gun safe in the garage with gold inside. Sometimes it is a few rolls of Gold Eagles. Sometimes it is a run of pre-1933 U.S. gold in old PCGS holders that no one in the family knew about. A few families have found coins sealed in envelopes marked with a grandfather's handwriting and a date from fifty years ago.

Preston Hollow buyers bought seriously. Business owners and investors who lived here in the 1980s and 1990s often worked with one dealer for years and put together sets of better-date Morgans, graded gold and full boxes of bullion. Collections like that deserve to be priced coin by coin, not by the pound.

Chris does that work in front of you. Each coin is checked for date, mint mark, grade and eye appeal. Bullion gets an XRF reading on screen and a weight on a scale inspected by the Texas Department of Agriculture. You see the numbers, and the written offer follows from them. If a coin is worth more to a collector than as metal, he says so and prices it that way.

For estates of this size, Chris often comes to the house. He can set up at a kitchen island or in a home office, with an estate attorney or a financial adviser sitting in if the family wants. When the amount is large, payment can go by wire instead of a check.

Parents here sent their children to St. Mark's, Hockaday, Jesuit and Ursuline, and many of those graduates now live out of state and are settling an estate from a distance. Chris can do much of the planning by phone, then meet whoever is handling the house on a weekday. Every heir gets the same written list. That list also helps when one sibling wants to keep the Morgans and another would rather sell the gold.