I brought some odds and ends in and was shocked at what they offered me. I'll be back.

Wow what a wonderful surprise to find Christina at Bellevue rare coins Tacoma so knowledgable, kind, informative, and caring. She walked me through the whole process and I appreciate her helping me do that. Came out with a check!!! Thanks Christina, see you again. Linda K. 4/15/26 read more

Thank you, Carina, for helping me again. She always has a smile on her face and so helpful. I took my daughter in to sell this and that and the person helping her was so nice. They seem to have the nicest people working there as I sat there watching other people being helped and all the smiles. read more

I had a collection of gold and silver coins I'd been holding for 20 years and wanted to sell before year-end amid the late 2025 surge. My options for immediate sale were to go in person or to sell to national online retailers. Before going to BRC, I pre-checked buy-back prices online for my coins at JM Coins, Kitco, and Money Metals. Overall, the final price I received was in-line with MM, about 4% better than JMC, and about 7% better than Kitco. So, I was completely pleased with the pricing at BRC. Additionally, I walked out with a check, no need to package, insure, and ship metals (hoping for no problems), and wait 1-2 weeks for payment. The "cost" is to drive, to go early, wait in line among 2-3 dozen others doing the same. If you can plan a few days out, book an online appointment and you jump the line. The workers are good natured and BRC seems to have a seamless process for pricing out standard coinage. Recommended. The sadness in selling long-held numismatics these days is that the exorbitant overcharge from yesteryear for MS70, for proofs, for "First Strikes" for DCAMs, etc. makes no difference in buy-backs. The industry has gone a different direction and there is seemingly no benefit over bullion when it comes time to sell. But that isn't the fault of BRC or any particular metals company. read more

Gives the best value for coins! Me and my fiancé went in to get some coins valued and although we had to wait a little bit. Their costumer service was great! read more

I went in there to sell graded silver coins that were all signed. Everything they offered me was no more than 50% of there value sold on open bids on ebay. Sets that were selling for $400+ on ebay consistently even days prior. I even showed him that I sold 2 others the week before for $410 each on open bids. They offered me less than $200 each. And that went on and on through all the coins I brought in. They literally offered less than half. Glad I drove almost 50 minutes to go somewhere that advertises that they give the highest prices. Even the guy offering me money after I said no I'm good looked at me like yeah I don't blame you. Just another (we buy gold and silver shop). What's funny is they have coins in display cases way over priced off coarse. read more

The location and parking is a bit difficult but the business is clean inside. The staff are all polite and friendly. They have a huge selection, and more if you ask for something specific. I have always felt I got good value for my transactions and walk away happy each time. Will definitely return and keep on. read more

I had some items from my parent's estate that, after 15 years, it was time to turn them into cash and pay down some debt. After hearing an ad for them on KJR Sports Radio, I found there is a Tacoma store. Cool! The store is on the south end of Pacific at 23rd. It looks like a converted auto garage as there are a few off street parking spots in front of the shop. If you are worried about safety carrying around valuables, this is a plus! My experience could not have been easier or more pleasant. I met with a young lady named Theresa (I'm 72 so every body is "young"). She gave me a value on the coins I had and explained how they were valued vs uncirculated coins. Made sense. I've been looking at other gold coin dealers and Bellevue Rare Coins was in the ball park. Showing my ID, she cut me a check on the spot for the agreed amount - it was that easy! Even though I had coins, they also evaluate and buy jewelery by the way. read more

Great experience and value. The Store Lead, Carina Carlos, was thorough, explained everything and was very kind.

Everyone has always been friendly and very helpful and honest I have taken family there also

Thank you to the staff at the Tacoma location, especially Kevin. I really appreciate his patience and great guest service I received from him. Kevin was very patient with me in the four hours I was there, including helping me understand the process and pricing. I will definitely be back for round two.... read more

Kevin Curry expertly assisted me in assessing my collection of circulated coins, as well as silver and gold. Kevin knows this business. It was a big job involving 900 some US coins and about 150 foreign ones. He was fully transparent and above board about the condition and potential value of each piece. He then offered me very fair value for the collection. Did I get top dollar? Probably not but it would have taken months and years and attending numerous coin shops and shows - way more work than it is worth to me. I received immediate payment along with an itemized invoice. Do you have a bunch of coins and metals laying around: did relatives leave you with a bag or box of old coins? Take them to Kevin at the Tacoma BRC. Leave with $$$s and a smile. read more

Recently visited the Tacoma store. Carina was so patient with us as we priced and picked out coins. It was very busy, but she made sure we were taken care of. There was a great selection too. read more

They are the most transparent gold bullion buyer in town . Very fair and straightforward. Of course they are making a small profit that's how they stay in business. They buy bullion for very small spread . Very reputable. read more

The service provided today by Zach Wilmarth was outstanding. I had quite a few coins that we needed to go thru and Zach was patient and outstanding. Really appreciated him making it painless and easy. Thank you Zach! read more

So the website, and yelp said they were open till 6pm on Saturday. Got there at 2:40 and it is closed. Either staff bugged out on them or they changed their hours and did not update anything. Made for a complete water haul for me. read more

Walked in to the Tacoma location. Had to wait my turn as it is a first come first serve basis. Was helped by Teresa. She was extremely helpful and knowledgeable. Had a pleasant experience and would definitely recommend the Tacoma location for friendly staff and a overall great experience! -William read more

My wife and I went to the Tacoma store on 7/19/24. We arrived there at 10:00 just when they opened, with no appointment. We were helped within around 10 minutes. We had a box of miscellaneous jewelry and gold nuggets. Employee Kevin helped us. He took his time, carefully going through each item and was quite knowledgeable and answered all of our questions. We left with a nice check that we felt represented a very fair and honest appraisal of the value of the items. We will definitely be returning in the future. Outstanding! read more

I'd like to encourage the staff at the Tacoma location to try to treat each interaction on a relational level rather than a transactional one. I'm sure they do assist rude customers in an industry such as metals so they may be guarded but take each interaction as it comes and avoid projecting impoliteness. Better for the client, better for the staff's emotional bandwidth. I choose BRC. I don't have to. read more

Shame on you Tacoma Bellevue Rare Coins...At first I had visited your shop and loved the customer service and coins for my kids in XMAS. The experience was so good that I recommended to my wife to take a custom made gold ring into the shop to validate that it was made in 18K (as she had requested from the California based jewelry maker). Her experience was terrible and now we will question whether we will ever be back to this Tacoma based outlet of Bellevue Rare Coins. Couple of issues with my wife's visit: 1. She asked if she could get the ring "scanned" with a Vanta™ handheld XRF analyzer (or similar "gun"). She was told by the young man at the counter that they didn't have one and those ONLY detect 24K gold. You know that is absolute B.S. and any self-respecting precious metal dealer or hobbyist knows it detects %s of metals. BAD, no knowledge of the industry. 2. They told her the only way to determine "accurately" the Karat of the gold was to conduct a SCRATCH test. Again BRCs you know this is NOT correct! In absence of a XRF analyzer you can do a density test or other NON-INVASIVE methods to test the purity of gold. VERY BAD 3. The 2 gentlemen (now there were 2) kept saying that they would pay her for the ring. My wife had to explain that she only wanted to confirm the gold density in the ring....still they persisted to "give her money" for the ring. BAD, your staff didn't listen! 4. They kept telling her that if you wanted to get an appraisal of the ring that is a totally different effort and they wouldn't be able to do that immediately. Well then BRCs, HOW would you determine the value of the ring if you couldn't test it accurately? Maybe you do have a XRF analyzer somewhere???? 5. This is NOT good customer service where a FEMALE customer has to endure "MAN-XPLAINING" how to test gold. Just a friendly note: My wife is a Chemical Engineer!!! Nice job, NOT knowing your customer. Maybe you will respond to this review and MAYBE we will give your company another try. Ball is in your court. read more

Perhaps the easiest transaction I have ever done selling precious metals. Stacey was friendly and professional. The service is top notch. You pay a small premium to buy and sell, but it's nominal. They even do service and cleaning on watches. Stacey had to find out the turn-around time for the service and called me about 5 minutes after I had left. I will def be back. read more

We recently brought in some jewelry to get looked at on 04/26 to see what might have been real and what was just fake and we were helped by Carina Carlos at the Tacoma Location. She was super helpful and very professional. When we got there she was busy with other customers but greeted us immediately and let us know that she would be with us as soon as she could. location was very busy that day and by the time she had completed the customer she had been helping there was a line of customers to deal with and in a very professional manner she let them all know that she was the only one there at that time and that she would be with the next customer as as she could. If businesses had more employees like that it would be a huge improvement over most customer service we have in business now days. read more

I went to Bellevue rare coins with jewelry from my moms estate. Theresa gave us great service and help. I was very happy with the amount paid. Totally recommended. read more

I recently went to Bellevue Rare Coins in Tacoma. Kevin was the person that examined a lot of jewelry that I brought in.I had a really large amount of jewelry. From some more valuable pieces to lots of odds and ends. It was a lot to go through. Kevin didn't flinch. He plunged through this enormous job with a smile and huge amount of patience. He separated it into groups. 10k, 14k and 18k as well as some costume jewelry which came home with me. Everything is based upon the worth of gold at today's prices. Bellevue Rare Coins is always great to work with. Kevin is awesome. My husband worked with him last year on the sale of some coins. I do recommend making an appointment on line. I was very happy that I did. Lots of walk ins. Thanks again Kevin. read more

Carina Carlos, branch manager of Bellevue Rare Coins Tacoma, provided me, yet again, with excellent and attentive customer service! She helped me out with a scheduling conflict, offering options. Having Carina expertly assess my jewelry and coins always makes me feel that my visit is important to her and to Bellevue Rare Coins and she is wanting to provide me with the best prices possible. I am a repeat customer for this Tacoma branch and will highly recommend Carina as your expert Professional Numismatist! read more

Quick and easy transaction. Got $40 for a 10k gold & ruby ring which is cheap, but it's better than 25 that a pawn shop offered. I had it listed online for 60 with no responses, so I consider it a fair deal. Lots of old Morgan and other silver coins in stock. read more

I had an excellent experience with William. I had made an online appointment to appraise/sell my silver and gold coins I inherited from my grandparents. He was on time, polite, worked quickly and gave me a fair price for what I had. I had over 40 coins and got cash in hand in under 30 minutes. I also appreciate that he explained exactly what they do with the items I brought in. Saying some get cleaned up and sold individually and some go wholesale to other markets, which impacted if he was giving me market value or above/below market for any given item. I realize there are a lot of people who want top dollar for their items. But to avoid the hassle, get a fair price, and get treated well, very worth it. read more

These guys do a lot of business in online auctions. However, they do not provide eBay listing services. Not a lot of experience of customer service--however, the email interactions seem short and curt. read more

I arrived and they were ready for my appointment. There is parking at the front of the store which was wonderful. I would back in next time as backing out onto Pacific can be tricky. I got a great price for old gold and the staff was pleasant and helpful. So appreciate not having to go north to one of their other stores. read more

On April 22, 2023, my mother, daughter and I went to the Tacoma location. After waiting for over an hour to be helped, my mother who will be 100 years old on her next birthday, asked if she could please use their bathroom. The woman clerk with the purple hair kept impatiently repeating that they don't have a public bathroom. After over an hour waiting with my 99-year-old mother, I felt she could have made an exception. We abruptly left without being helped and vowed to never return to that store. This was extremely poor customer service. We were "customers" and not the "public". read more

First time here and I love them Carina Carlos was very knowledgeable and super helpful and so kind! This is my new favorite spot to buy metals!! Hope for many yrs to come!! read more

They valued my IWC portuguese rose gold watch for $70. This watch new is around $17,500 She couldn't find any information on eBay so she wasn't interested in any of my watches. Why have a store if you use eBay for reference. Don't waste your time going there. read more

They were very pleasant and polite. Low offer. Using current economic conditions for low offer.

A lifetime of jewelry odds and ends and old school silverware....it was time to part with these; we scheduled an appointment at Bellevue Rare Coins Tacoma and had the absolute pleasure of being assisted by Carina; her detailed, methodical and thoughtful process in determining what items were of value; she carefully inspected and measured stones and graded and weighed the items....this was a two hour process and Carina was caring and kind throughout the process. Thank you Carina! read more

I went there today and brought jewelry with actually appraisals AIG appraisals from 2005. The appraisal value was more than 75k and I had another couple dozen pieces. All were real gold, diamonds and gems. That was not in dispute. After 2 hours of looking at everything I was offered under $6800 for everything. A complete waste of my time. they say in the commercials they give honest value is a joke at best, theft at worst. I would be very very careful doing business with them. Get a second opinion for sure. I think they prey on people that need money fast. A fancy pawn shop is what my opinion is. I was expecting maybe 50% or so of appraised value at worst. Please be very careful with this company read more

Great customer service. Received good price on our silver. Raenee was excellent to work with. will recommend to friends for sure.

We took several pieces of jewelry and an assortment of coins to be evaluated to the Tacoma location and we're greeted by Alex. She was very professional and personal in her interaction with us. Very informative and friendly. Explained everything to us during the process as well as answering all our questions, even those not directly to due with our specific transaction, (like other items in the store, her experience working for the company and getting excited about when those really rare or unique items come). Definitely appreciated her time with us. Thanks to Alex for a great experience! read more

I had a chunk of gold with 7 diamonds, and I actually had a jeweler appraisal for $2500 just a few days before I went to this place. They told me that it was worth $328. Talk about taking advantage of people read more

They were wonderful. I was there to sell sterling silver we had a ton. They gave us market value. Carina Carlos was so knowledgeable, kind and funny. She made us feel so comfortable. We plan to go back with more. Thank you for the great service. read more

****updated review**** Unfortunately the Tacoma location just lost my business. Let me say I live in the Olympia area and decided to give more local coins shops more of my silver bullion business so for the last few months I have cut my online purchases down quite a bit and started purchasing from the Tacoma location pretty much every week. I'm not a huge spender by any means but i do buy fair amount. All in all i have bought approximately 100oz from the Tacoma location in the last month and a half. Like i said not a lot. This morning i went in to purchase some generic rounds and the bald headed gentleman that attempted to help me out was not helpful at all. I was planning to buy 50oz of generic silver rounds today from BRC in Tacoma and left with nothing. Not only did he cause BRC to loose a $1,000 easy sale today but BRC has lost all my future business as well. Which is unfortunate because the two ladies that work there and the other gentle that help me before were fantastic. Please see my previous review below to see what i thought of BRC before today experience. ***old review below*** Went into the Tacoma location today to buy some silver and the gentleman who helped did a great job. He was very easy to work with and it was definitely a good experience. Pricing was competitive with the online bullion dealer. It's always nice to be able to pick out your silver and be able to leave with the silver the same day instead having to wait for your check to clear from the online dealers and then waiting for t shipment to arrive. I will be back again! read more