Sell to Us · Gold Jewelry · San Juan Capistrano
Sell your gold in the town where you can meet the buyer first.
San Juan Capistrano is the one city where you do not have to take our word for anything, because our shop is standing in it. Old 44 Vintage sits just off the historic district, a few minutes from Los Rios Street, and the people who buy gold for California Vintage Buyers are the same people behind that counter. Walk in with a drawer of gold any open day and it gets weighed the way it would at your own table: karat tested in front of you, read off an open scale, the day’s price in view.
The town’s gold runs deep and runs in more than one tradition. The oldest residential neighborhood in California sits here, the equestrian properties off Ortega hold generations of accumulation, and the mission town’s families kept Mexican gold, centenarios and smaller pesos, alongside the usual chains and rings. We test and weigh all of it transparently, price coins as coins and signed pieces as jewelry, and pay only true scrap as scrap. Cash the same visit, whether you walk in or we come to you.
What we buy in our home town
Family and estate gold
Chains, wedding bands, and the accumulated pieces of long-held households, weighed transparently in grams against the day’s price.
Mexican gold coins
Centenarios, 50 and 20 peso pieces, and smaller denominations. Real bullion with clean spot-based pricing, and we know the collectible dates from the common ones.
Broken pieces and odd gold
Kinked chains, single earrings, class rings, dental gold. All of it weighs, all of it pays, and none of it embarrasses anyone at our counter.
Signed and antique pieces
The deco ring or signed bracelet in the same drawer is usually worth more than its weight, and we pull those aside before any melt math starts.
Walk in, or we come to you
This is the shortest distance between a seller and our scale anywhere in California. Walk into Old 44 Vintage with the gold, no appointment needed, or call and we will come to you anywhere in San Juan Capistrano, from the historic district and Los Rios to the equestrian streets off Ortega Highway and the hillside homes above the mission. Either way the process is identical: tested and weighed in front of you, every number explained, cash before we part. Call or text photos to (949) 449-1255.
Why It Matters
The difference between ordinary and valuable is in the details: a stitch, a hallmark, a date code. Knowing them is our entire job.
How it works
Call us.
A real conversation about what you have, no forms, no waiting.
We come to you.
We look at everything, at your pace. We know what we're seeing.
Cash offer, same visit.
A fair price on the spot, or a full estate sale run for you.
Common questions
Why does it matter that you have an actual shop?
Because accountability has an address. A buyer you can revisit tomorrow prices differently than a stranger passing through, and a business that lives here answers for its offers. You can meet us, look at what we sell, and judge whether we know the material before you show us a single gram.
Are Mexican gold coins worth more than their weight?
Usually they trade close to their gold content, which is substantial, a centenario holds over an ounce of pure gold. Certain dates and conditions do carry premiums above melt, and we check for those before quoting rather than after.
What percentage of the gold price do you actually pay?
It depends on the piece and the total weight, and we state it out loud before weighing anything, which is the part most buyers skip. On jewelry worth more as a finished piece than as metal, we pay against the jewelry market instead, which is often the bigger number.
Know what it’s worth before you sell.
Our field guides explain how the market actually prices these things. No fishing, no hype: real ranges and the details that move them.
One call. We’ll take it
from there.
(949) 449-1255Mon-Sat 6 am-8 pm · Sun 8 am-5 pm
A real person answers, Monday through Saturday. Photos sent today are usually answered the same day.
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