Most of what comes to us from Millburn arrives as an estate rather than as a
single piece. The township’s older housing stock, particularly through Short
Hills, means collections here have often sat untouched for thirty or forty years
— accumulated by someone who has since died, and inherited by family who have no
particular way of telling a collectable coin from scrap metal.
That shapes how we handle Millburn appointments. Rather than asking you to box
everything up and carry it to Livingston, we will usually come to the house. An
in-home evaluation lets us sort as we go, and it avoids the awkward problem of
transporting a collection you have not yet had valued.
Sorting collectable from melt
The single most common mistake we see from this area is families selling an
entire collection by weight. In a typical Millburn estate, the great majority of
the material genuinely is melt — worn sterling, broken chains, common-date silver
coinage. But somewhere in the box there are usually a handful of pieces worth
considerably more to a collector than the metal in them, and those need pulling
out before anything else happens.
We sort those first, in front of you, and explain what makes each one different.
If a piece is worth more at auction than we would offer, we say so.
Working with executors
We are regularly asked for written valuations for probate rather than for sale.
That is a different document from a purchase offer, and we prepare it as such —
itemized, dated, and suitable for handing to an attorney or filing with the
estate. There is no obligation to sell anything to us afterwards, and a good
number of Millburn executors never do.
Bring photo ID to any appointment. New Jersey requires it for precious metals
transactions, and we cannot complete a purchase without it.
Neighborhoods in Millburn
Millburn takes in one named community. Drive times on this page are measured from the center of Millburn Township, so the counter may be a little nearer than that, or a little further.
Census designated places, U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 five-year estimates.