Fox Valley Coins
The boyhood dream began when Marlon Mathre was just ten years old. He got interested in rare coins when one of his uncles offered him a dollar for an old wheat penny. Marlon remembers giving the penny to him for a dollar and recalls Uncle Harold saying that he’d buy any other wheat penny for the same price. So Marlon saved all his Wheat cents for a year and at the next reunion he presented them to his uncle. But they were all the wrong dates and uncle Harold only paid a few dollars for the year’s collection of pennies. “He gave me a five dollar bill for about 50 Wheat pennies but also gave me his 1967 copy of The Blue Book. I took it home and got more interested,” Marlon recalls. “I guess I got hooked because I haven’t quit looking for rare coins.”
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Specialties: Fox Valley Coins in Naperville, IL, buys and sells antiques, coins, gold and silver. We provide free on-the-spot appraisals of all precious metals and collectibles so that you can make an informed decision about selling your.
Originally a farm boy, Marlon opened his first coin store fresh out of high school. He jokes that when he decided to open up a coin store many of his family and friends thought he was going to become a corn dealer, not a coin dealer. The first store was just a small 180 sq. ft. room in an old downtown building in the rural town of Yorkville Illinois. Three years later he moved “Yorkville Coin Investments” into a somewhat larger store just down the block. Fifteen years later he opened Fox Valley Coins, Inc. in the neighboring and much larger town of Aurora. It was a great move. Later Fox Valley Coins opened up an additional location in the next town, just East of Naperville Illinois, at the intersection of Route 59 and I88. It too has proven to be a great location and a thriving coin store. When asked why he thinks Fox Valley Coins has been so successful, Marlon says, “We have truly been blessed
Marlon goes on to say that the company has grown and appears to now be one of the largest coin operations in the mid-west. “It’s grown because we try to be fair and honest in every coin evaluation. We treat everyone like they’re family. There’s a lot to look at in our store display cases and people come back month after month because our inventory revolves rapidly. Also the coin auctions are held about every two months, creating a huge audience of numismatic collectors and their friends.” Fox Valley Coins pays top dollar prices – especially for rare coins and currencies. Many people often want to sell entire collections – not just their special or rare coins but their entire collection. “That’s how people almost always get more for their coins and currency here. We’re solvent enough to purchase the largest and rarest of hoards and specimens, but we also have the ma and pa types and younger collectors who come in with the more common coins – which we gladly evaluate, making offers immediately.”
One of the largest coin shops on the Pacific Coast is Jack H. Beymer’s Big Oak Plaza Coins located in Santa Rosa, known as the “City of Roses”. Named after the fabled plant architect Luther Burbank, who created the thornless rose and the Shasta daisy, Santa Rosa today is a pleasant city to visit. Since 1971 Jack H. Beymer has been buying and selling rare coins to residents and visitors of the Redwood Empire. The Big Oak Plaza Coins has a spacious showroom with showcases full of every manner of coin and wall lined with rare paper currency prints as well as proof and historic sets.
Jack and his staff buy and sell rare coins. Showcases display Indian pennies, wheat pennies, buffalo nickels, pre-1964 Mercury and Roosevelt dimes, Washington and Seated Liberty quarters, Walking Liberty and Franklin half dollars as well as the fabled Morgan and Peace silver dollars. There are also gold coins, including “California Gold Rush” $20 Double Eagles, $10 Eagles, $5 Eagles and $2 1/2 Eagles. Both the Indian (1908 – 1929) and the Coronet Head 1839 – 1908 are in stock. There are also some magnificent silver tokens, proof sets, gold nuggets and silver bars. Why not stop by and explore Jack’s world full of memories from the past and make a purchase that will bring you years of pleasure.
Speaking of our children, Jack points out that one of the nicest ways to instill value and savings is to get your kids hooked on coin collecting. Why not bring the family in for a tour of American and World history through the coins that Jack and his talented staff can show them. To start with you can buy a Whitman folder for Indian or wheat pennies and get your kids started on coin collecting. Remember “the wealth of a nation and success of a family can be judged by the thoughtful resourcefullness of its youth!”
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The Big Oak Plaza Coins hours are 9am – 5pm Monday through Saturday. You can pay for your coins by credit cards – MasterCard, Visa, Discover and American Express, approved checks or by cash. Inquire about Jack’s newsletter and mailing list.