Grand Junction

Gold Guy

Montrose, Colorado

A gold, coin and estate buyer for Montrose who sorts, weighs and prices the whole lot on paper, line by line.

A safe deposit box, a jewelry chest and three coffee cans of coins make for a long afternoon. When a family in Montrose has gold, silver and a coin collection to sell, that is the afternoon to bring to the Gold Guy. We go through all of it one piece at a time.

You sit and watch each item get tested and weighed. When we are done you hold an offer on paper with a separate line for every group, from the 14K gold down to the sterling forks.

A mixed lot is sorted in front of you before any of it is priced.
Each line of the offer carries its own weight, purity and price.
You can sell the gold, keep the silver, and decide when the family is ready.

Tell us what you have | Take the seller quiz

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1-970-404-GOLD (1-970-404-4653)

Monday to Saturday: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (Mountain Time)
Sunday: Closed

Why Montrose families bring a large lot to the Gold Guy

Nothing gets lumped together

The 10K goes in one pile and the 18K in another. Sterling is pulled away from plate, and the coins are set to one side before anything touches the scale.

You learn the units

Dealers weigh in troy ounces, pennyweights and grams. A troy ounce is 31.1 grams and a pennyweight is a twentieth of a troy ounce, and we will repeat it as often as you like.

Coins are looked at before they are weighed

The Gold Guy goes through the coins for collector value first. A graded coin in its holder is priced by its date, mint mark and grade, never by its weight.

The family gets time

Take the written offer home and go over it with your brothers and sisters. The lot is yours until you say yes, and silence never counts as a yes.

What we buy from Montrose estates and collections

We buy gold and silver in whatever form a household has gathered over the years. That means wedding bands and dental gold, sterling flatware and tea sets, silver dollars, bullion bars and rounds, coin albums and graded coins. It can come in tarnished, tangled or broken.

Silver takes the most sorting. Sterling is 92.5 percent silver and is stamped "sterling" or "925", while EPNS or the word "plate" tells us the piece is plated. The knives get a line to themselves, since a sterling knife handle is a thin shell over filler with a steel blade in it.

Stones are valued apart from the metal, and an heirloom you want to keep goes home with you.

How a large lot is handled from start to finish

Tell us what is coming. A few lines will do, such as two jewelry boxes, a set of flatware and a shelf of coin albums. We write back with what to bring.
Sit down while we sort. Every seller needs a valid government-issued photo ID in hand. The lot is then tested and weighed group by group, right where you can see it.
Go through the offer line by line. Every group has its weight, its purity, the metal price used that day and its total. Once you accept, we pay within 24 hours by check, ACH transfer or store credit, or with cash in person when both of us agree.

Your decision, always, and on every line.

A long list is still your list. Take the offer on the scrap gold and keep the silver dollars, or sell the coins and carry your grandmother's ring home on your finger.

When an executor needs to show the rest of the family where the number came from, an offer on paper with the math shown does it for them. Choosing a dealer who writes everything down is the careful way to settle an estate, and you will be treated with that same care here.

Frequently asked questions

Where can I sell gold and coins from an estate in Montrose?

Bring the estate to the Gold Guy. We buy gold, silver, coins and whole estates from Montrose, and the offer is written so that every heir can see how each figure was reached.

Do you buy from Olathe and the rest of Montrose County?

Yes, from Olathe and from every corner of Montrose County. Small lots are gone through as carefully as large ones.

Should everything be cleaned or sorted first?

Leave it the way you found it, please. A coin that has been cleaned brings less from a collector, and the sorting is our job.

Can you tell us how to divide a Montrose estate among the heirs?

Tax and the split among heirs are matters for the attorney or accountant handling the estate. Our written offer gives them what we would pay for every group in the lot as of that day.

Tell us what you have.

A few lines will do. Tell us what it is, roughly how much of it there is, and any stamps or dates you can read, and we will write back with what to bring and what to expect. If you are still working out what is in the box, the seller quiz will sort it out in a few minutes.