About Us

Mission Statement

To provide first-class comprehensive coin collection market information, entertainment, and education for collectors in regard to rare coins, ingots, and every other area of the numismatic industry. We connect collectors and bidders with the finest certified rare coins with transparent accuracy, providing a secure platform for the coin collection market via rare coin purchases, sales, auctions, prompt communication, respect, and ethics.

Our Founder

Charles Jonath

-Managing Member & Chief Numismatist

Passionate about numismatics, I made my foray into coin collecting when I was only 8 years old, and always eager and willing to learn something new, Spending lots of time in a coin shop and attending coin shows, I grew up understanding the excitement that people feel when they are learning about coins.

Attending the Berklee College of Music and CRI, I studied both Music and Mathematics. I am equal parts creative and analytical, open to using whichever part of my mind I need to use to achieve the goal in front of me. This mindset has served me well as a business owner, facing a variety of challenges over the years. Through it all, I believe that the sincerity I bring to coin collecting has complemented the strategy that I have followed as an entrepreneur. in collecting when I was only 8 years old, and always eager and willing to learn something new, Spending lots of time in a coin shop and attending coin shows, I grew up understanding the excitement that people feel when they are learning about coins.

A third-generation collector, I come from a strong numismatic tradition. Mentored by multiple experts over the years, I have accrued a strong foundational knowledge in coin collecting. I worked previously as a market maker in bond derivatives, affording me deep insights into the financial world at large and enriching my view of coin collecting especially as a means of alternative investment. Between everything that I have learned on my own and everything that others have taught me, I am confident in my sense of the rare coin market and the trends that regularly tend to enter it and exit it and shape its prices. I am not interested in riding these trends to try to turn a quick profit, preferring instead to navigate coin collecting from a more value-oriented position.

The way that I see it, I am not a coin dealer but a collector who also happens to sell coins. Because of the large volume of coins that pass through my hands and my exceptional access to A+ deal flow, I run Vegas Coin Dealer and Bid Lux Auctions, which I hope to build into highly respected and dependable brand name in the world of coin collecting. Every coin I sell, I do so only to fund my ongoing collection efforts, enabling me to keep and evaluate the coins that I have come into because of personal relationships and sometimes auctions that their estimates I believe to be undervalued on the market.

The network that I have developed over the years, both due to my professional life and my personal and family relationships, is extensive, and it is a key driving factor in the consistency with which I come into rare coins. Bringing me immense joy every day, coin collecting is a pursuit unlike any other, connecting us with the past and affording us a glimpse into those who came before us – people who used money of their own and lived lives of their own. In every coin, there is a story, and that is what I love about them.