Treasure Hunters Ready for your Loot

Bobby and Oleta Volking got a check. And that's what hundreds of others hope to do by selling items deemed collectible they find around the house, in the attic or garage or a safe deposit box. The Treasure Hunters Road Show is in Mobile and looking for your collectible items.

Linda Hall with Treasure Hunters says the company doesn't appraise items, but matches up collectors in its database with items you might bring in. The fifteen year old company, established in Illinois, began buying collectible toys and coins. It has since expanded to include just about anything of value to a collector.

Hall says in the past six months they've bought more than $61m worth of items around the country, in Europe and Canada. She says Treasure Hunters has 44 crews operating in the U.S. employing people from every state. There are also crews in Europe and Canada.

Not everything people bring in is valuable, however. She says they do their best to give an honest value for items deemed collectible. While we were there, a number of people brought in gold and silver jewelry and several brought coin collections. Yesterday a man was paid about $8000 for his coin collection that included gold pieces. Another was paid $175 dollars for a collectible figurine. People were turned away with items such as Nixon presidential memorabilia and mustache cups. One man had a silver coin collection estimated at about four times the face value but decided not to sell it because of its sentimental value.

The group is at the Ashbury Hotel and Suites on the Beltline in Mobile through Saturday.