Sell Silver Near the Shore in Brick, NJ

Shore Area Sellers Are Finding Serious Money in Their Silver

We see a pattern at our Brick store every spring. The weather warms up, people start cleaning out, and the silver comes pouring in.

Some folks are downsizing from a larger home now that the kids are grown. Others are heading south for retirement and need to lighten the load.

And every year, families settle estates and find silver tucked away in closets and storage units they did not even know about.

Brick sits right in the middle of the shore area. We get sellers from Toms River, Point Pleasant, Lakewood, Jackson, and Howell.

Route 70 and the Garden State Parkway connect everyone to our door at 921 Cedar Bridge Ave. Quick trip in, quick trip out.

Silver is having a moment. Prices have held at historically high levels in 2026, which is great news if you are sitting on sterling you are not using.

A typical sterling silver flatware set weighs somewhere between 50 and 120 troy ounces depending on the pattern, the number of pieces, and whether you have serving pieces. At these prices, a large set can carry substantial metal value at today's live spot price.

But here is the catch. Not everything that looks like silver is silver.

Beach houses and shore homes tend to accumulate silverplate alongside sterling. Both can tarnish the same way.

Both can look elegant in a display case. The difference is that silverplate has a thin coating of silver over a base metal, while sterling is 92.5% pure silver all the way through. One is worth real money.

The other is not.

We sort this out for you in minutes. Our XRF spectrometer reads the metal composition of each piece without damaging it.

You see the results on the display. Sterling reads at 92.5% silver. Coin silver reads at 90%.

Plate reads as mostly copper or nickel with a trace of silver. No guesswork involved.

Once we confirm what is solid silver, we weigh it on our certified scale. Troy ounces are the standard measurement for precious metals.

One troy ounce equals about 31.1 grams.

We multiply the weight by that day's silver spot price and offer you a percentage. The whole process takes about 15 minutes.

You either accept and get paid in cash, or you pass and take your items home. No pressure, no sales pitch.

We also buy silver coins. If you found a coffee can full of pre-1965 quarters and dimes, those are 90% silver.

A bag of old Morgan dollars from grandpa's dresser drawer could be worth a lot more than face value. Silver Eagles, bullion bars, and rounds are straightforward buys too.

Our 2026 silver price update breaks down exactly what different types of silver are worth right now. For details on our buying process, visit our silver buying page.

To find our Brick store hours and directions, check the Brick location page. You can also call (732) 444-2094 with any questions, or submit a free appraisal request online.

Flatware from estate cleanouts:

Full sets in tarnish-proof rolls, partial sets, and loose pieces. We weigh and price everything individually, so missing forks or odd serving pieces are no problem.

Silver coins from collections:

Pre-1965 US coins (dimes, quarters, half dollars), Morgan and Peace dollars, Silver Eagles. We see a lot of coin collections from retirees in the Brick area.

Jewelry being sold during downsizing:

Silver chains, bracelets, rings, and earrings. Pieces you have not worn in years. Broken items are fine since we buy for silver content.

Bullion bars and rounds:

Purchased as investments and now being liquidated. We buy any size from any mint after verifying weight and purity.

Hollowware and serving pieces:

Trays, bowls, pitchers, candlesticks, baby cups with engravings. If it is solid sterling, we buy it regardless of condition or appearance.

Why So Much Silver Surfaces Along the Ocean County Shore

Brick is the only one of our stores that sits inside the Jersey Shore, and the shore has its own rhythm when it comes to silver. Cedar Bridge Avenue puts us in easy reach of the year-round towns and the summer communities alike.

Households in Toms River, Lakewood, Howell, and Jackson tend to bring us inland estate silver, while the barrier-island and bayfront crowd from Point Pleasant, Bay Head, Brielle, Manasquan, Sea Girt, and Spring Lake arrives with the silver that decorated shore homes for decades.

A lot of that metal traces back to one life event: someone is leaving a longtime shore property. Children who grew up summering at the beach inherit a house, and inside the buffet sit the sterling sets that came out only for holidays and clambakes.

Other sellers are heading to Florida or the Carolinas and simply do not want to ship a heavy chest of flatware they never use. Wall Township and Manasquan downsizers, in particular, walk in with full hollowware collections that have outlived the homes they once filled.

The shore also produces a steady flow of inherited coin holdings. A retiree on the bay may have squirreled away Morgan dollars or rolls of pre-1965 change for fifty years, and the family that settles the estate often has no idea those coffee cans hold ninety percent silver.

Because most estate-sale firms around Ocean County liquidate furniture and real estate rather than precious metals, shore sellers frequently leave their best silver on the table. That is exactly the gap our Brick counter was built to close.

What Silver We Buy and How We Test It at the Brick Store

At 921 Cedar Bridge Ave we buy the full range of silver: sterling jewelry and hollowware, sterling flatware, silver bars and rounds, .999 fine bullion, and silver coins. Shore homes accumulate all of it, and we are happy to sort a mixed box piece by piece rather than asking you to pre-organize anything.

The first job is always separating real silver from look-alikes. Sterling is 92.5 percent pure and stamped "925" or "sterling," coin silver runs at 90 percent, and .999 bullion is fine silver. Silver plate, by contrast, is a thin skin of silver over a base-metal core, which is why a heavy plated tray can look impressive yet carry little resale value.

To remove the guesswork we test every piece with an XRF spectrometer. The handheld unit reads the exact metal composition in about two minutes without scratching, filing, or acid, which matters for engraved baby cups and antique serving pieces that should never be damaged.

Once a piece is confirmed as solid silver, it goes on our state-certified scale in front of you, and we show the weight before we ever quote a number. Your offer is tied to the live silver spot price that day, so the figure moves with the real market rather than a back-room estimate.

Bullion and coins follow the same path. We verify the weight and purity of bars and rounds from any mint, count silver coins by their actual silver content, and price everything off live spot. Whether you are downsizing, clearing a beach house, or settling a shore estate, you watch each step and decide on the spot.