2025 marked our 55th anniversary of selling coins by mail (Internet did not exist way back then).  Joel Anderson started collecting coins while in third grade. In 1970, while still in High School he started to sell world coins by mail on a part-time basis. Joel graduated from the University of Santa Clara then got a Masters of Business Administration from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College. After working in cost accounting and as a controller in Silicon Valley, he found himself on the wrong side of a "corporate reorganization". Deciding it was more fun to sell coins than to do real work he converted his part-time coin business into a full time business in 1989.   The firm consists of Joel, and his wife Lila. Business is done by mail, Internet. The firm has been selling coins on the internet since 1996.  Sorry, but we do not have a shop and are not set up to receive visitors.

The firm has been located in Grover Beach, California since 2003. Grover Beach is located next to Pismo Beach on the beautiful Central California coast.  Joel enjoys taking late afternoon walks on the beach.

Joel and Lila have each served as President of the California State Numismatic Association (CSNA)  and the Gateway Coin Club of Merced County.  Joel has received the California State Numismatic Association Medal of Merit. Joel is a Life Member of the American Numismatic Association  (ANA)  and Numismatics International (NI).     Their daughter, Grace has "retired" from the firm.  After graduating from the United States Air Force Academy she flew the KC-135 Stratotanker for the Air Force.  She is now a pilot for American Airlines.  Their Grandson, Parker, was born in December 2010, and was already attending coin shows by January.

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