NORFED and Liberty Dollars.

This page is about one specialty. If you're here with a coffee can of ordinary coins, an inherited collection, or gold to sell, the main shop is here and I'd still like to see what you've got.

NORFED issued the Liberty Dollar — silver and gold pieces, and paper warehouse receipts backed by them — from 1998 until the federal government shut the operation down in 2007. What's left is collected, and it's a specialty market with a great deal of misidentified and misgraded material moving through it.

I'm one of a small number of dealers in the country who can authenticate, grade and value NORFED and Liberty Dollar material properly. I buy it, I sell it, and I can tell you what a piece is and what it isn't, whether you're selling or just curious.

If you have any, bring it.

Silver Liberties, gold pieces, the paper certificates, the odd denominations, the early dates. I'll tell you exactly what it is either way, and there's no charge for that. If you're a collector looking for specific pieces, tell me what's on your list — the table at a show is where most of it changes hands.

How to tell what you've got

The silver pieces are one troy ounce of .999 silver, so at minimum they're worth their metal — the calculator will give you that number. What sits on top of it depends on the date, the denomination stamped on it, the mint mark, and the condition, and that's where most of the mistakes get made. A common date sells for a modest premium over silver. The scarce ones sell for several times it. Don't let anyone weigh yours and call it a day.