Ohio Coin and Antiques was founded to help people liquidate antique and vintage items. Our staff has nearly a century of experience buying, selling, appraising and consulting on all things related to antiques, collectibles and art.
Antiques are a life-long passion for us. Since childhood, collecting, buying, selling, learning, and sharing about antiques has been focus.
All of Us at Ohio Coin and Antiques grew up in houses furnished with antiques, and weekends and summers were filled with the excitement of auctions, flea markets, antique malls and yard sales. Our parents didn’t do our haggling and buying for us; if there was a treasure near our price range, we had to walk up to the seller and start the bargaining. Sometimes we could make a deal, sometimes disappointment ruled the day. But in the end, the thrill of the search and the joy of finding a “keeper” had us hooked!
A natural extension to buying is selling, and it wasn’t long before we realized not everything could be a keeper. Or maybe what was once a keeper could be let go and replaced by a different, better keeper. Along with managing our various collections, we would see items that we knew we could find a buyer for, and thus it began.
We have continued our passion to this day. Antiques and coins are more than just a price tag to us. Saying we have a reverence for vintage may sound like hyperbole, but it is the truth. Antiques have a story to tell, as do the people who collect them. Their stories are woven into them, and we think it is critically important to respect and preserve their story. Antiques are living, breathing things full of wonder.
We want to share that wonder with you. We don’t think the process of selling or buying should be stressful or hard. We think it should be fun, it should be easy, and maybe even exciting! We equally love it when you share with us. If you pay attention, it is impossible to come away from an interaction with another without learning something.
We know a collector who, among many interests, collects local post cards. But he doesn’t really collect post cards; they’re incidental to his true interest: the cancellation stamps. His county, at the most numerous, had 80+ post offices. Today, the same county has less than a quarter as many. In the 120 odd years between the high number and today, the population has increased exponentially. So why so many post offices? It turns out, before automobiles, you needed a post office within walking, or short horse-powered distance. As soon as a few houses were built in an area, one of those early residents would decide they’d make a good local postmaster, and they’d write off to the postmaster general in Washington D.C. with a locality name for approval. In short order, they’d be in the postal business. Early accounts of hamlets and hollows are rich with accountants of rival attempts to become postmaster; competing attempts to register a favored name; of postmasters who thirsted for power, or sometimes women and whiskey. With the rise of automobiles, the world shrank and the post offices were consolidated and closed one by one until only towns and villages of a certain size still have a post office. This story only truly comes alive when listening to our collector friend; he knows names, and has colorful stories, and suddenly fading cancellation stamps on old post cards are completely fascinating.
Thanks to his passion, we come away with a deeper understanding of our community and its history.
We believe that by sharing our passion; by approaching it with honestly and integrity we can build lasting relationships with our clients.
