People say “coin dealer in Hickory” when they mean one of two lots: a few bullion Eagles, or a parent’s album that has not been opened since the 1990s. Those lots are not priced with the same sentence. Bullion is weight and purity. A collection is a hunt.
Do not dump the album into a scrap bag
Once coins are loose and mixed with jewelry scrap, the dates that mattered become a scavenger hunt. Leave folders, flips, and slabs together. PCGS and NGC holders are information. Homemade 2x2s with pencil notes can be information too — even when the notes are wrong.
The look-order that protects you
First: is it genuine. Second: is any piece a key date, mint mark, or graded coin that pays above melt. Third: whatever is left as silver or gold content. Reverse that order and you accidentally sell a collectible as junk silver.
Gold King buys gold and silver coins, pre-1933 U.S. gold, junk-silver bags, and graded pieces as part of the same Hickory counter. We are not a mail-bid auction house. We are the place you walk in with the album. Details on metals sit on gold and silver. If the album is one object in a larger estate, start there.