About Coinsel

Coinsel is a price and market tool for coin collectors. Looking up what a coin is worth is easy. Finding out what is for sale near you, and whether it is priced fairly, is not. Coinsel puts the two together: local auction lots, coin shows and dealers, each checked against recent sold comps.

What's for sale near you

Regional auctioneers list coins every week, usually somewhere between the furniture and the farm equipment. Deal Radar reads those catalogs and prices each lot against recent sold comps. When there is no comp to use, it prices raw gold and silver by the metal in them and tells you that is a floor, not a market price.

Put what you're hunting on your want list and you get an email when a lot near you is listed well under value. Bidding happens on the auction site. Coinsel never sits between you and the auctioneer.

Shows

The show calendar covers coin shows across the country, with the bourse dealer list wherever we have one. On Pro, a prep sheet lists each coin on your want list with a target price and a walk-away number, both set from current comps. It opens on your phone with no signal, which matters in a convention hall. Log what you bought on the way home and slabbed coins go into your portfolio at what you paid.

Dealers, and what they pay

The dealer directory lists coin shops by state and city. Everybody knows retail. Nobody publishes what a shop pays when you are the one selling.

So Coinsel users report the offers they get. Once a shop has five reports in a category, the median shows on its page with the sample size next to it. Nobody's name is ever attached, and the numbers are reported offers rather than quotes. Reports are open in the Chicago area so far, and more areas follow as the reports come in.

The price tools underneath

All of it rests on the price data Coinsel started with, and those tools still work on their own. Look up any PCGS cert number for its guide value and population. Track your coins in a portfolio and get an alert when a value moves. Pro adds sell signals, which weigh each coin you own against what you paid and where its comps are heading.

There are market trends by series and a write-up for every coin type. A separate feed watches eBay for certified coins listed under guide, and the melt calculator handles bullion.

The people behind Coinsel check this data every day, and we care about getting it right. If you spot something wrong, and in a dataset this size something always is, let us know and we'll fix it.