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FAQ: Major Dealers

Usually dealers will pay about 50% of book value or they will offer your item at auction (in which case they usually retain 15% of the hammer price as their commission). Here are five reputable dealers specializing in colonial items:
American Numismatic Rarities
Box 1804
Wolfeboro, New Hampshire 03894

tel: 1-866-811-1804

A major firm conducting several live auctions in various cities and also purchasing items for their inventory - all coins and currencies

Stacks
123 West 57th Street
New York, New York 10019

tel: 212-582-2580

A major firm conducting several live auctions and also purchasing items for their inventory - all coins and currencies

R.M. Smythe
2 Rector Street
12th Floor
New York, NY 10006

tel: 212-943-1880
or 800-622-1880
fax: 212-312-6370

A major firm conducting several live auctions and also purchasing items for their inventory - specializing in documents, autographs and currency with some coins as well. This is a new address as of December, 2003.

M and G Auctions
P.O. Box 2967
Edmund, Oklahoma 73083

tel: 405-341-2213 (Chris McCawley)

This firm conducts the annual live auction at the Colonial Coin Collectors Convention, coins only.

Early American History Auctions
P.O. Box 3507
Rancho Sante Fe, California 92067

tel: 858-759-3290 (Dana Linett)

fax: 619-4374-7280

This firm has about 6 mail bid only auctions a year (coins, currency, newspapers, documents, autographs and realia. This is a new address as of September 1, 2002)