Validation prototype · Prices as of Oct 24, 2026 — silver spot $53.80/ozt (Kitco). Figures that are estimates are labelled in place. Checkout is live — payment is taken by Stripe on its own page.
Inherited a jar of old coins?Find out what they’re worth — andwhat a dealer would pay.
Every coin sorted into spend it, melt or bulk, or worth a closer look — with the one number no other coin app shows: a realistic dealer offer, with its source and date.
3 free scans · No account · No trial that bills early
69coin apps already crowd this niche — Appaloma
$1.1M+estimated monthly revenue across the niche — Appaloma
+148%silver’s rise in 2025, re-pricing every old jar — Perth Mint
1883 Morgan dollar · obverse — scroll, or tap the coin, to turn it over
Prices realised · as of Oct 24, 20261883 MORGAN DOLLAR $42–$68PEACE DOLLAR $45–$551964 KENNEDY HALF $20–$22WASHINGTON QUARTER · SILVER $10–$11MERCURY DIME $4.10–$4.50ROOSEVELT DIME · SILVER $4–$5WARTIME NICKEL $3.20–$3.50WHEAT CENT · BULK $0.03–$0.10
The same answer, every scanPrices come from a stored table per coin type and condition — never re-guessed by a photo model on each scan.
Every number shows its workMelt floor, recent-sold range, and dealer-likely pay, each labelled with its source and the date it was checked.
Honest billing, as a featureOne price, a trial that bills when it ends, cancel in one tap. In this category, that is a differentiator.
See the result first
This is exactly what a verdict looks like.
No signup wall, no teaser. A complete verdict, computed by the tool on this page from the same Oct 24, 2026 price snapshot — then try it on a coin of your own.
Verdict · 1883 Morgan Dollar — Circulated
Melt floor$41.61
Recent sold range$42–$68
Dealer would pay~$31–$37
Estimates reflect circulated condition · Prices as of Oct 24, 2026 · Silver spot $53.80/ozt (Kitco) · Dealer figure is an estimate, not a firm bid — dealer offers vary by region and market
Melt or bulkThe big silver dollar of the Old West — its value is its metal: 0.7734 ozt of silver × the $53.80/ozt spot price (Kitco, Oct 24, 2026). Estimate for sorting only — not an appraisal, not authentication.Sort one of your own coins ↓
Why another coin app
The leaders are popular. Their numbers are not trusted.
CoinSnap and CoinIn are genuinely successful — 10M+ downloads, top-five US Reference revenue across 2025. But their one-star reviews converge on the same failures, in the reviewers’ own words:
“When u take a picture of the same coin the price is different — I take a coin and it’s $1, and when u take the picture again it’s $80.”
JarSort’s answerPrices are stored per coin type × condition, so a re-scan returns the identical number by construction. Try the “Scan it again” link under any verdict below.
“I get the prices from here, take it to a coin shop, and the prices are completely different from what these prices say. How do I know what to go by?”
JarSort’s answerThe headline number is what a dealer will likely pay — a figure none of the top 12 coin apps shows at all.
“One coin ranged between $0.20 – $3,385… the app doesn’t explain what I should look for to determine if it’s worth $3,385 or just $0.20.”
JarSort’s answerA short guided checklist for that exact coin, so the gap between the low and high number becomes a list of things you can check yourself.
The loudest complaint in the category is billing: 93 “free trial” complaint mentions across the top 12 apps — trials that charge early and subscriptions that resist cancelling (Appaloma pooled analysis). JarSort’s answer is structural: one clear price, a one-time Jar Pass for a one-time job, cancel in one tap.
The job JarSort is built for: one inherited jar, sorted before anyone makes you an offer on it.
One coin, three chapters
Every coin in the jar has already lived a life.
The route a typical Morgan dollar took to reach your kitchen table — and the ninety seconds that finish the story.
1883 · NEW ORLEANS
Struck
Pressed at the New Orleans mint — the small O under the wreath on its reverse is that mint’s mark — in the years when Morgan dollars were coined by the tens of millions and spent like ordinary money.
1883–2026 · DRAWERS, CANS, ONE JAR
Held
It outlived a century of house moves and clear-outs because every owner, in turn, looked at it and decided it seemed too old to spend. That instinct is usually right — and it is never priced.
2026 · YOUR KITCHEN TABLE
Verified
Ninety seconds with JarSort: year and mint mark confirmed, three sourced prices, one of three piles — sorted and written down before any dealer ever sees it.
ObverseReverse
← ObverseReverse →
Two photographs, two different 1883-O specimens of the same design. The reverse is where the mint mark hides — above the DO in DOLLAR — and it is the side most people never think to check.
The prototype
Sort a coin in three steps.
Guided identification — no pretend photo AI. Pick the denomination, then the design, confirm the year and mint mark, and read the verdict. That’s the whole flow.
1Pick2Confirm3Verdict4Your jar
Free scans: 0 / 3 used
Pick your coin
Photograph the front and back for your records, then find your coin in the catalogue — by denomination, by design, or by searching its year. Three taps and you are at the confirm screen.
Front (obverse)
Back (reverse)
Photos are kept in this session for your records only — they are never uploaded. Identification here is guided: you confirm the denomination, design, year and mint mark yourself. No AI photo recognition is claimed, or used.
Find your coin — guided identification
Not in the catalogue — that does not mean not valuable.
The catalogue covers the 81 US and Canadian series that turn up in inherited jars most often. A coin outside it is often the interesting one — early, foreign, commemorative, or a low-mintage year the catalogue has not reached yet. Uncommon can mean scarcer, not cheaper. Three things to do with it:
Photograph both sides. Use the photo slots at the top of this step — front and back, in plain light, before the coin goes anywhere.
Copy down the four identifiers. Country, year, denomination, and the design or words on it — four lines that let anyone identify it later.
Get told when it is catalogued. The most-reported catalogue gaps get catalogued first — leave an email and this coin joins that list.
Validation prototype: the email is recorded in this tab only — nothing is sent, nothing is stored anywhere, and it disappears when you close the page.
Meanwhile, keep it safe: do not clean it, do not polish it, and do not sell it in a hurry — an uncatalogued coin sold cheap on a first offer is the classic jar mistake. Photograph it, note the four identifiers, and park it in your jar as an uncatalogued placeholder below; it stays out of the priced totals until it is identified.
Placeholders never use your free scans and never enter the priced totals.
Pick your coin from the catalogue above to continue.
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Confirm what’s stamped on it
Year on the coin
Mint mark — small letter on the back, if any
Condition — pick the closest match
Same coin + same condition always returns the same verdict.
Your verdict
Three numbers, each with its source. The highlighted one — what a dealer will likely pay — is the one to negotiate from.
Your verdict appears here after you pick and confirm a coin.
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Melt floor—
Recent sold range—
Dealer will likely pay—
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Melt floor = catalogue metal content × spot price.
Silver spot used: $/ozt
— Kitco spot, Oct 24, 2026; edit to today’s price and every melt figure updates with it. Silver moved fast that week — re-check the spot before you sell.
The dealer-likely price is the number this whole tool exists for — what a dealer will actually offer, so a lowball is obvious on sight. Your first coin includes it free; on free scans 2 and 3 it stays locked, and it unlocks with any plan, together with unlimited scans and the full jar report.
Estimate for sorting only — not an appraisal, not authentication. A photo cannot prove a coin is genuine or catch every variety; anything in “worth a closer look” deserves an in-person opinion before you sell. Prices as of Oct 24, 2026; dealer figures labelled as estimates are derived by the stated method, not firm bids.
Your 3 free scans are used
The full jar — unlimited scans, the error checklists, and the one-page dealer sheet — is behind one honest price. Pick a plan — checkout opens on Stripe in a new tab, and this page never sees your card.
Secure checkout by Stripe — payment happens on Stripe's page; this page never sees your card.
One more thing: check for the valuable versions
Other apps skip error and variety detection entirely. Work through these for this exact coin — if you find one, the verdict updates itself.
Your jar
Take the dealer sheet to two dealers and compare offers — never accept the first number.
No coins sorted yet0 / 10
Nothing sorted yet. Verdicts you add will collect here, with running totals per pile.
Coin
Verdict
Melt floor
Recent-sold
Dealer-likely
Spend it
$0.00
face value — safe to spend or deposit
Melt or bulk
$0.00
dealer-likely total for this pile
Worth a closer look
$0.00
dealer-likely total — get an in-person opinion first
Handling rule #1: never clean a coin. Cleaning destroys collector value instantly. Keep coins dry, handle by the edges, and don’t sell or discard anything until the whole jar is inventoried — standard estate guidance.
How it works
Three steps. Nothing else to learn.
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Photograph it, then tell us what it is
Front and back photos are kept in this session for your records. Identification is guided — denomination, design, year, mint mark, confirmed by you against an 81-coin catalogue — the US and Canadian series that actually fill inherited jars. That human confirmation is exactly how the “wrong year, wrong price” errors of photo apps get avoided.
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Confirm what’s stamped on it
Year, mint mark, condition — already filled in, one tap to correct. This single step is what kills the “wrong year, wrong price” errors other apps make.
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Read the verdict, keep the sheet
Every coin lands in one of three piles with three sourced numbers. When the jar is done, take the one-page dealer sheet to two dealers and compare.
No black box
How each number is derived
Every verdict shows the same three labelled figures, computed the same way for every user.
Melt floor
Pure arithmetic: the coin’s catalogue metal content × today’s spot price. A 1964 quarter holds 0.1808 ozt of silver, so its floor moves only when silver moves. After silver’s ~148% rise in 2025 (Perth Mint), this floor alone re-priced every pre-1965 US silver coin — and every inherited jar.
Recent-sold range
What comparable coins in the confirmed condition actually traded for in Oct 2026 — dealer asking prices, published price guides and observed sales, checked Oct 24, 2026 and shown as a range with its source. Stored once per coin type and condition, never generated fresh per scan, which is why re-scans can’t drift from $1 to $80. Where no verified range exists, the figure is labelled an estimate in place.
Dealer-likely pay
No major dealer publishes a standing buy list — sell-to-us prices are quoted by phone — so every dealer figure here is an estimate, shown as “dealer might pay ~$X–$Y”, never a firm bid. The method is stated per coin: common US silver is inferred at 75–90% of melt from an observed dealer buy/sell pair; collectible coins are derived at 60–70% of the retail range per published dealer-margin rules; Canadian silver comes from published per-$1-face buy sheets. Knowing that band before you walk in is the difference between accepting a lowball and recognising one.
Why now
The demand is measured, not guessed.
And it keeps being refilled by inheritance, cleanouts, and metal prices — not by collectors.
$90K–$181K / week
Estimated US revenue for a single leading coin app (CoinIn) across Q1–Q4 2025 — top-5 US Reference revenue in three separate quarters. Estimate, Sensor Tower.
$1.1M+ / month
Estimated floor for the coin-identification niche combined — 69 apps, with both leaders in a “$250K+/month peak” band. Estimate, Appaloma.
+148%
Rise in the silver price during calendar 2025, to a record — mechanically re-pricing every pre-1965 silver coin sitting in a drawer. Perth Mint, Dec 2025 market update.
Pricing
One job, one honest price.
Three free scans to prove it works on your jar. After that, pick the shape that fits an episodic job — sorting an inheritance happens once, not every month forever.
$6.99 / month
Monthly
Full access while you work through a collection. Billed monthly, cancel in one tap inside the app — no email-to-support runaround.
Built for one jar$14.99 one time
30-day Jar Pass
Thirty days of unlimited sorting and the dealer sheet, for the price of two coffees. No subscription, nothing renews, nothing to cancel — the plan the category’s billing complaints argue for.
$39.99 / year
Yearly
For executors, estate-sale regulars, and families working through more than one collection. The standard annual price across this category’s leaders.
Our billing promises, in writing: a free trial bills when it ends, never days before; the price on this page is the price at checkout, with no second “premium” charge after; cancelling takes one tap inside the app and works immediately. These are promises because the alternative is this category’s single biggest source of one-star reviews.
The catalogue
81 coins, documented — United States & Canada.
Every coin JarSort can sort — the ones that actually turn up in inherited jars on both sides of the border — with its metal content, the melt maths worked out in the open, and the key dates to check before anything is sold. One difference to know: pre-1967 Canadian silver is .800 fine, not the .900 of US silver, and the 1967–68 changeover years were struck in two silver recipes — the catalogue keeps them separate. Canadian face values are in Canadian dollars; every figure is shown in US dollars at the Oct 24, 2026 rate of CA$1 = US$0.7141. Prices as of Oct 24, 2026 — market ranges researched that day from dealer prices, buy sheets and guides; the few series without verified data keep seeded ranges and are labelled estimates in place. Estimates for sorting, never appraisals.
Questions
Asked by everyone holding a jar.
Why is the dealer price lower than the “recent sold” price?
Because the sold price is what a collector pays at the end of the chain, and the dealer stands at the start of it — buying your coin, holding it, and reselling it at a profit while carrying the risk that it sits in a case for a year. Estate guidance puts typical dealer offers at 20–50%+ below guide prices. Neither number is “the real one”; the gap between them is simply the dealer’s margin, and knowing it in advance is what stops a lowball from sounding reasonable.
Should I clean the coins first?
Never. Cleaning is the single fastest way to destroy collector value — a polished coin can lose half its worth instantly, and no cleaning can be undone. Handle coins by the edges, keep them dry, store them in plain flips or tubes, and leave toning and dullness exactly as they are. Dealers expect old silver to look old.
How do the 3 free scans work — and what happens after?
Your first coin gets the complete verdict, dealer price included, so you can judge the tool on a real number. Coins two and three still get their pile and their melt and sold figures, but the dealer price unlocks with a plan — it is the number the tool exists for. After three coins, sorting more requires Monthly ($6.99/mo), the one-time 30-day Jar Pass ($14.99), or Yearly ($39.99/yr). No trial bills early, no surprise second charge, cancel in one tap. Choosing a plan opens Stripe checkout in a new tab — payment is taken by Stripe on its own page.
Is this an appraisal? Can it tell me if a coin is fake?
No, and no. JarSort produces sorting estimates from stored reference data — it is not an appraisal, not an authentication, and not investment advice. A photo cannot prove a coin is genuine; weight, diameter, and an in-person expert can get much closer. Anything sorted into “worth a closer look” should be verified in person before you sell it, and the checklists show you the first tests to run at home.
Why did my 1965 quarter get “spend it” when my 1964 one didn’t?
One year changed the metal. US dimes, quarters and halves dated 1964 or earlier are 90% silver; from 1965 they are copper-nickel clad, worth face value in circulation. The edge settles it in a second: a solid silvery band means silver, a copper stripe means clad. Half dollars have a middle step — 1965–1970 halves are 40% silver — and the catalogue treats them separately for exactly that reason.
Why do I identify the coin myself instead of the app scanning it?
Because honest guided identification beats pretend photo AI. The leading apps’ angriest reviews are about photo scans returning the wrong year, the wrong mint, and a different price every time. JarSort asks you to confirm four things you can read off the coin with your own eyes — denomination, design, year, mint mark — and then computes the verdict deterministically from stored data. Same coin, same condition, same numbers, every time.
What should I do with the “worth a closer look” pile?
Keep it separate, don’t clean it, and don’t sell any of it on a first offer. Download the dealer sheet from your jar, take it to two dealers, and compare their offers against the dealer-likely range on the sheet. If a coin might be genuinely rare — a key date, a doubled die, a wartime mistake — an in-person grading opinion comes before any sale.
Half my jar is Canadian. Are those coins covered — and are they silver?
Yes — the catalogue now carries 30 Canadian series alongside the US ones, from Victorian large cents to the loonie and toonie. The silver rules differ from the US, and the difference matters: Canadian dimes, quarters, halves and dollars dated 1966 or earlier are 80% silver (.800 fine — US silver is .900, so a Canadian quarter holds a little less metal than a US one of the same weight). The changeover is where jars go wrong: 1967 dimes and quarters were struck in both 80% and 50% silver, and 1968 dimes and quarters come in both 50% silver and plain nickel — same design, same date, very different value. The catalogue lists those years as separate entries and the checklists give you the magnet test that tells them apart. Canadian face values are in Canadian dollars; JarSort shows every figure in US dollars at a stated exchange rate (CA$1 = US$0.7141, Oct 24, 2026).
What if my coin is not in the catalogue at all?
Then the tool says so — and treats that as a finding, not a dead end. Not in the catalogue does not mean not valuable: early, foreign and commemorative coins are exactly the ones a jar catalogue misses, and uncommon can mean scarcer, not cheaper. When a search comes up empty, JarSort walks you through the fallback: photograph both sides, copy down the four identifiers (country, year, denomination, design), optionally leave an email so the gap gets catalogued sooner, and park the coin in your jar as an uncatalogued placeholder — kept out of the priced totals, listed separately on your exports, and free: placeholders never use your free scans. Until it is identified: don’t clean it, don’t polish it, and don’t sell it on a first offer.
The fine print, in plain language
About JarSort — and the rules it runs on.
About
JarSort is an independent, one-person project built for a specific moment: someone inherits a jar, a coffee can, or a cigar box of US coins and has to decide — before a dealer does it for them — what is spendable, what is metal, and what deserves a second opinion. It covers US and Canadian coins only, on purpose: a narrow catalogue, checked deeply, beats a shallow one of the whole world. Canadian jars — and plenty of American ones near the border — are full of pre-1967 Canadian silver, so the Canadian series are documented to the same depth, with the silver changeover years (1967–68) handled explicitly.
JarSort is currently in a validation stage. Prices on this page are a dated market snapshot — researched on Oct 24, 2026 from dealer asking prices, published buy sheets and price guides, with silver at $53.80/ozt (Kitco); the few series without verified data keep seeded ranges, labelled as estimates in place. The sorting flow, the deterministic pricing, the checklists and the exports you see here are the real product logic.
Terms of use
JarSort provides coin-sorting estimates for education and personal inventory purposes. By using it you agree that its figures are estimates, that you will not rely on them as an appraisal or as the sole basis for a sale, and that final pricing decisions are yours. We do not buy coins, sell coins, or broker transactions, and nothing on this page is an offer to do so.
Paid plans, once live, are billed through Stripe at the prices shown on this page at the time of purchase. Subscriptions renew at the stated interval until cancelled; cancellation is available in one tap and takes effect immediately for future billing. The one-time Jar Pass does not renew. Prices may change for future purchases, never retroactively for a plan already bought.
The service is provided “as is” without warranties of accuracy or availability. To the extent permitted by law, liability is limited to the amount you paid for the service in the preceding twelve months. These terms may be updated; material changes will be posted on this page before they take effect.
Privacy
This validation page collects nothing. There are no accounts, no cookies, no analytics and no tracking. Photos you add stay in your browser session and are never uploaded; your jar, scans and plan choice exist only in this tab’s memory and disappear when you close it. Downloads (CSV and dealer sheet) are generated on your device.
When paid plans go live, checkout and payment details will be handled by Stripe — JarSort will never see or store your card number. If an account email is introduced for receipts and plan recovery, it will be used for that purpose only, never sold, and this policy will be updated and dated before that happens.
Disclaimer
Every value on this page is an estimate for sorting only — not an appraisal, not authentication, and not investment or financial advice. Melt values are arithmetic from catalogue metal content and a stated spot price; sold ranges are a market snapshot as of Oct 24, 2026 and will differ from live market data; dealer-likely figures are estimates derived by the methods stated on this page, not firm bids — dealers quote sell-to-us prices individually. Actual dealer offers vary by region, market conditions, and the individual coin.
JarSort cannot detect counterfeits and does not certify that any coin is genuine. Key dates and varieties flagged by the checklists require in-person verification. Do not clean, alter, or test a coin destructively on the basis of anything here.
Contact
Questions about a coin we sorted wrong, a catalogue gap, or a plan: email hello@jarsort.com. Every message is read; replies usually land within two business days.
Please don’t mail coins — we can’t accept, store, or return them, and no valuation can be given for a specific coin by email. For anything in your “worth a closer look” pile, a local dealer or coin club, dealer sheet in hand, will serve you better.
