Fox Valley Coins

Specialties

Fox Valley Coins is Chicagoland’s best coin shop for buying, selling, and auctioning valuables. We deal with rare coins, currency, antiques, collectibles, gold, silver, platinum, scrap gold and much more. Stop in to one of our 3 local coin shops for an offer on your items or to purchase something for your collection. We will always welcome you.

History

Established in 1981.

Established in 1981 Originally a farm boy, Marlon opened his first coin store fresh out of high school. The first store was just a small room in the rural town of Yorkville. 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. Fox Valley Coins opened up an additional location in the next town 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. 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. Fox Valley Coins pays top dollar prices — especially for rare coins and currencies. We’re solvent enough to purchase the largest and rarest of hoards and specimens, but also buy s

Meet the Business Owner

Marlon M.

Business Owner

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.»

Marlon concludes, «I often wonder about the date of that original wheat Cent I sold to Uncle Harold in the summer of 1972.» He’s been gone for some time now, but if I could tell him one thing it would be «Thanks a million».