This Tender Offer Statement on Schedule TO (Schedule TO) relates to the
tender offer by Cards Acquisition Inc. (Purchaser), a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Cards Parent LP (Parent), a Delaware limited partnership, for any and all of the outstanding
shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (Shares), of Collectors Universe, Inc. (Collectors Universe), at a price of $75.25 per Share, without interest and subject to any required withholding taxes,
net to the seller in cash, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the offer to purchase, dated December 17, 2020 (the Offer to Purchase), a copy of which is attached as Exhibit (a)(1)(A), and the related
letter of transmittal (the Letter of Transmittal), a copy of which is attached as Exhibit (a)(1)(B), which, as each may be amended or supplemented from time to time, collectively constitute the Offer. Pursuant
to General Instruction F to Schedule TO, the information contained in the Offer to Purchase, including all schedules and annexes to the Offer to Purchase, is hereby expressly incorporated herein by reference in response to Items 1 through 9 and Item
11 of this Schedule TO and is supplemented by the information specifically provided in this Schedule TO.
Capitalized terms used and not defined herein
shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Offer to Purchase.
Item 1. Summary Term Sheet.
The information set forth in the section of the Offer to Purchase entitled Summary Term Sheet is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 2. Subject Company Information.
(a) The name of the subject company and the issuer of the securities to which this Schedule TO relates is Collectors Universe, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
Collectors Universes principal executive offices are located at 1610 E. Saint Andrew Place, Santa Ana, California, 92705. Collectors Universes main telephone number is (949) 567-1234.
(b) This Schedule TO relates to the Shares. Collectors Universe has advised Parent that, as of the close of business on December 10, 2020, 9,058,657 Shares
were issued and outstanding. The information set forth in the section of the Offer to Purchase entitled Introduction is incorporated herein by reference.
(c) The information concerning the principal market in which the Shares are traded, and certain high and low sales prices for the Shares in that principal
market, is set forth in the sections of the Offer to Purchase entitled Summary Term Sheet and The Tender OfferPrice Range of Shares; Dividends and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 3. Identity and Background of Filing Person.
(a), (b), (c) The information set forth in the sections of the Offer to Purchase entitled Summary Term Sheet, Introduction, and
The Tender OfferCertain Information Concerning Parent and Purchaser and in Schedule I to the Offer to Purchase is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 4. Terms of the Transaction.
(a) The information set forth in the Offer to Purchase is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 5. Past Contacts, Transactions, Negotiations and Agreements.
(a) The information set forth in the sections of the Offer to Purchase entitled Summary Term Sheet, The Tender OfferCertain Information
Concerning Parent and Purchaser and The Tender OfferBackground of the Offer; Past Contacts or Negotiations with Collectors Universe is incorporated herein by reference.
(b) The information set forth in the sections of the Offer to Purchase entitled Summary Term Sheet, The Tender OfferCertain Information
Concerning Parent and Purchaser, The Tender OfferBackground of the Offer; Past Contacts or Negotiations with Collectors Universe, The Tender OfferThe Merger Agreement and The Tender OfferPurpose
of the Offer; Plans for Collectors Universe is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 6. Purposes of the Transaction and Plans or
Proposals.
(a) The information set forth in the sections of the Offer to Purchase entitled Summary Term Sheet,
Introduction and The Tender OfferPurpose of the Offer; Plans for Collectors Universe is incorporated herein by reference.
(c) The information set forth in the sections of the Offer to Purchase entitled Summary Term Sheet, The Tender OfferPrice Range of
Shares; Dividends, The Tender OfferSource and Amount of Funds, The Tender OfferBackground of the Offer; Past Contacts or Negotiations with Collectors Universe, The Tender OfferThe Merger
Agreement, The Tender OfferPurpose of the Offer; Plans for Collectors Universe, The Tender OfferCertain Effects of the Offer and The Tender OfferDividends and Distributions is incorporated
herein by reference.