Stack's Bowers Galleries | New York, NY — Local services in New York

Attention everyone! I just arrived at my home in Brooklyn. I just arrived from seeing the agent James because we had agreed last week for me to go to his shop, today at 1pm. That way, he could assess my collection of prestigious and rare graded old coins, ungraded old coins, and a variety of more graded and ungraded recent ones that I had with me as well. When I arrived, he first provided me with a tray. Next, I opened up a medium-sized box that I had brought with me that contained my coins, then I removed my coin collection from the box, and lastly, I placed all of my coins on the tray for him to assess. That man was a complete joke because he did not even evaluate them. What he first did was take quick looks of my coins individually and wrote down on a blank piece of paper the names of each of my coins. When he finished, he looked at me to tell me to only give him a few minutes, that he was going to go to his office, come back out to me, and give me an offer. It was at that moment that I felt skeptical and mistrustful of his demeanor because I expected for him to be rather a professional and really assess my coins in detail by taking into consideration the mint and proof of quality that most of my coins are. As well as take into consideration the year or time frame, each of my coins was minted and released to the public because coins could come with a premium if it was released during a significant event that took place in our country. I was also hoping for him to take consideration of a few of my rare coins that had either the designation of an error, for him to also look closely at them to spot potentially an error or errors on them, and to consider some graded coins that his store could potentially sell to the highest bidder in one of their prominent auctions that he could include. Just to name a few of the coins I brought with me: 1971-S Ike Eisenhower Silver Dollar contained inside an NGC super holder with a designation of proof 69*, peg leg error exclusive coin, two limited edition, mint 2021 (P) silver eagle dollars with a PCGS grade of 70 and the other graded 69, a A 2021 (S) silver eagle dollar, PCGS graded 70 mint and with the designation of First Day of Issue, T1 Emergency Issue, a 1918-D, ungraded but looks to be a gem Standing Liberty quater, one graded and the other ungraded 1964 (one "P" the other "D" John F Kennedy half dollars, and two ungraded 1921 uncirculated Peace dollar and a uncirculated 1921 Morgan Silver dollar, etc. Right after about 7 minutes of me waiting for him to come back to me from his office, he did so and gave me an offensive, disappointing, and unshockily unacceptable offer of just 1600 dollars. Two small assets that I forgot to mention previously that was part of my collection and deal was a 10 grams, 24k gold bar, and a Louisiana bank note from the 1800's. I gave him an upsetting face, told him that his offer was outrageous, gathered all of my stuff, and left that joke of a place without me having to look back. It's obvious that many of these comments on here are from employees, colleagues and/or friends of employees, and/or family members of them. I would only recommend people to do business with Stack Bowers, only if an individual is a druggie and needs to sell his or her coins quickly to be able to satisfy their drug addiction pronto. The shop is quite similar to a low approval pawn shop that only pays customers and clients, pennies on a dollar for them to unfairly be able to secure the unfortunate person's possession. Just skip this disgraceful business! It's absolutely not worth doing...

Stack’s Bowers is without question the finest, most trustworthy business I have dealt with in as long as I can remember. Andrew Bowers and his partners are consummate professionals and the most decent and honest people I have had the pleasure of doing some very high stakes business with. I do not say this lightly as it’s rare in today’s world to meet anyone in any business who is as scrupulously and unimpeachably honest, transparent in their practices, looks out for its customers and clients as is Stack’s Bowers. I recently sold them a sizable collection of highly valuable coins. It was the kind of transaction that could have been a nightmare scenario if one were not dealing with first class professionals, with the highest degree of knowledge in their field combined with absolute, scrupulous honesty. When you are entrusting a very valuable collection of gold coins you need to make a sizable leap of faith as the transaction is processed (from when the collection leaves your premises and arrives at theirs for evaluation and an offer to purchase). At no time did my heart skip a beat, my blood pressure rise and I did not worry for even a minute that somehow I was going to regret my trust in Mr. Bowers and his colleagues. What I especially appreciated and respected was the very clear and transparent way in which Mr. Bowers explained the entire process to me. At no time did he give me a sales pitch or try to sway my decision to use his company. I am definitely not a naive or foolish person so I know what I am talking about. After Stack’s Bowers received this incredibly valuable and huge quantity of coins, they actually told me I had undercounted the inventory I had sent to them and they saved me at least tens of thousands of dollars through their honesty. Mr. Bowers is such a decent man to deal with: they bore all the expense of shipping the product and told me all about the process. He told me if I didn’t like their offer, there would be no hard feelings and he would gladly ship my collection back to me. I was very pleased with their offer. In fact, I knew their offer was the fair and decent offer before even checking because that is the way they conduct their business: as experts, as professionals, as honest business men and as gentlemen. I had, and have, total confidence in their expertise and trustworthiness; their well deserved, long standing reputation speaks for itself. This is not a company that employed any sort of “sales pitch.” It is impossible for me to imagine ever using any other company but...

I'd like to share MY experience: I've been Buying - Selling - Setting-up - and Consigning for the better part of six decades now. I knew them all; was at Long Beach when the first batches of newly-graded PCGS coins were delivered (the "Whack & Crack" sounds were ringing throughout the hall). About Stacks from my perspective: a) They know what they are doing, and have been doing so for several more decades than I have. b) Lofty Expectations do not always equate to Grading/Selling Reality. c) They know their Business well; otherwise they would have been out of it by now. That about sums it up. d) Stack's is who I trust to have my coins graded and sell for me - the process is super easy and "hands-on" throughout; I can't say that about others, and it's not as if I'm consigning bell-ringers. One Thing: when there were Coin Dealer forums on a certain selling site, a nice lady who sold Jewelry asked who could help her with a plastic paperweight from The Bank of New York, which had a FUGIO inside. "Freeze it! Boil it! Smash it with a sledgehammer!" were just a few of the suggestions given her from "pros". I PMed her (I had great feedback, so...) and said: "Here is my contact info at the coin place Stack's in NYC. He's a VP and will take care of you." I didn't think anything of it, until a) after the sale of it she was telling me that she was watching the auction, and when it sold for over 3K she and her husband just about fell off their chairs. She was very grateful for Stack's, and me for suggesting them to sell it for her. I was pleased that the process was seamless and worked very well. b) I received, out of the clear blue sky and quite unexpectedly, a Finders-Fee check. Didn't ask, wasn't expecting I just eMailed my contact that he should be receiving a message from her. I take any questions on here about Stack's Fairness or Honesty with a shaker full of Salt. Separate the "Agenda Reviews" for what they are... Two sides to every...