Cellar Coin Co

honest, helpful and very knowledgeable

This shop is great. Mike is a straight shooter and is very fair on buy/​sell and trade. If you’re into coins this shop is where you’d should stop! Highly recommended!

great shop, helped me go through a huge pile of coins that I inherited. very helpful, explained the whole process and gave me a great price on the collection.

This place is the best in town. If you are looking to sell you will get very fair prices, if your looking to buy the prices will be just as fair. Just call around to a few places and after wasting that time you will find nobody can meet or beat their prices. Also I know a lot about coins, and Mike (the owner) was saved me a few times pointing out nice or rare coins that I had overlooked while selling scrap silver. He has a lifetime in this field and it shows!

I had taken my old coins to 2 other places before coming here. Mike had quoted me the highest of the 3 places and I was in and out of there within 30 minutes (I had several coins.) I was extremely satisfied with the service, efficiency, and price I received. Highly recommend this place.

numismatics
[noo-​miz-​mat-​iks, –mis-​, nyoo-​]
Noun — The study or collection of coins, paper currency, and medals.
The reason I bring this up is because I’m not a numismatist — at all. Some people love collecting antique quarters and Civil War pennies or whatever. I’m not one of those people. Money bores me. It’s just a means of exchange. A means to an end.
That said, when I received a big honkin’ pile of old and collectible coins from a relative, I had no idea what to do with them. I was clueless as to their value, and they ended up buried under my bed for several months. While doing some spring cleaning, I rediscovered this coin collection and decided to sell it all. I wanted a more legit option than Craigslist — something to ensure the coins would have a happy future in the hands of *real* numismatists. A quick Unilocal search led me to the Cellar Coin Company in the heart of PB.
Cellar Coin is a small spot, sandwiched amongst the bars on Garnet, and the walls are lined with coins of all types. I was greeted by Mike and April. After explaining my situation, they said they were happy to buy the coin collection off me. It took them ~30 mins to carefully sort and count all the coins I had. While I waited, I chatted with some of the store’s regular customers, who said that Cellar Coin has been a PB institution for as long as they could remember, and they do business there all the time.
After all my coins were counted, April gave me the value of the whole coin lot — and, needless to say, I was *very* pleasantly surprised! After showing them my ID, April wrote me a check, and I was on my way. Easy peasy.
Cellar Coin is a superb and very professional local biz. I don’t plan on immersing myself in numismatics any time soon, but, if I do, I’ll be sure to do all my buying and selling here.

These guys are awesome — I was just looking to sell some coins I had, and they are the only store in town that will give you the full spot price. Everyone else takes off a cut. I will definitely be coming back! Thanks guys!

Brought in 4 coins. Was instantly told one was fake. But sold the other 3 old 50 cent coins for 8 $ each. Not bad, i expected about 10 but whatever. Quick and easy, decent pay for your coins.

Very friendly, knowledgeable and discreet. If you are looking for a reputable and honest dealer in numismatics or bullion sales and acquisition in San Diego, this is your best option.

I’m really into doing business with people who are knowledgeable, quick, and honest. True story: I was part of a clothing and accessory exchange with some ladies at church. One lady brought in a lot of her jewelry that she inherited and thought was completely junk. I looked through and found a lot of gold and silver jewelry. One thing that stuck out was this gold Mexican twenty peso coin mounted as part of a necklace. If you translate it, it would read «15 grams of pure gold», it was from 1959. For the price of gold, it looked like that it was a little less than ½ oz of gold and the price of gold at the time was somewhere between $ 1500-​$ 1600 per oz. I do some research about this coin and I find that it is actually sells on the internet for $ 836 dollars by coin collectors. The most I was hoping to sell the coin was for $ 650. I was happy to get more than that. Anyway, I was able to sell them the coin for the amount of gold that was in the coin itself — which is a fair price.

I came here with Sean «gecko» R. to sell some old coins he had found in a box in his room and I was selling some old coins as well. I had a solid gold penny that I had looked up online previous to coming here, so I had an idea of the value.
the guy helping us was quick, no nonsense, he added up the values and offered us a number. It was a fair deal, we accepted and he gave us the cash.
Its a tossup between coming here or the old coin shop to sell coins, but this place is definitely legit.

I went to two coin shops to sell a U.S. Proof coin set. Cellar Coin & Jewelry and John Franklin Fine Jewelers (on Balboa Avenue). I went to John Franklin jewelers first where they offered me $ 675. I wasn’t sure if this was a good price, so I went to Cellar jewelers a few weeks later. Although Mike from Cellar Coin was initially polite and knowledgeable; he only offered me $ 468. I politely explained I had been offered $ 675 and he was obivously bothered. I thanked him, drove 20 minutes down the road to John Franklin jewelers where they paid me $ 675 for the coins. Both shops showed professionalism, knowledge and politeness, but with the extreme difference in price offered my coins, I have to give a big thumbs down to Cellar and a big «yes» to John Franklin.

I’ve been doing business with Cellar coin for almost 10 years. Michael, the owner, has been in the precious metals business all his life and really knows the market. If you are in the market to buy or sell coins this is the place to go.

I was interested in buying some gold, Micheal/​Cellar Coin was recommended by a much more knowledgeable friend of mine, glad he helped with the introduction.
Micheal clearly knows his business, and if you have a question, he has a straight answer. Always interesting, always informative.

I’ve been going to buy and sell gold and silver at Cellar coin for around 10 years. Mike always is honest and straight, and very knowledgeable. He will always try to get what you’re looking for if he doesn’t have it.
There have also been times that I wanted to buy something but Mike would suggest against it, even though he could have made more money off me.

You cant go wrong. Very honest people and around a long time. Buying or selling, you will be pleased.

Hard parking but… other than that…
Ok I’m the scrap metal dumping, can and bottle collecting, precious metal investing guy. I called and the prices were very uncomplicated (Spot price + $ 1 — $ 2 depending on what I was asking for) compared to a lot of places that quote by percent.
After dealing with numbers all day I don’t want to hear percent. I want to know what I owe you. I’m good enough with numbers that I can smell bullshit if you try and take too much off the top anyway. I’ll pay for a premium if I really want what I see.
Anyway this place is nice and well lit. It also has interesting proof series coins that are sold as singles, as well as sets. I’ll probably come back here because they have interesting stuff. The only problem I have is location, but that’s a minor thing.