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About John Feigenbaum

As president of David Lawrence Rare Coins, John Feigenbaum has over 32 years of professional numismatic experience. John's began collecting coins as early as age 5 when he started attending coin shows and club meetings with his father in southern Florida. He has also written, The Complete Guide to Washington Quarters (1993) & co-authored The Complete Guide to Certified Barber Coinage (1994). A graduate of Virginia Tech, John took over the reins at DLRC in 1996 when his father, Dave, was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease. Today, technology is a focal point in growth of DLRC and John spends most of his time with IT development as he leads DLRC and other partnerships in the development of coin-related web sites and mobile applications.

David Lawrence offers NGC-graded Ancient Greek & Roman coins for sale

Greek & Roman Coins graded by NGC

The folks at David Lawrence Rare Coins are excited to offer a great selection of NGC-graded Greek and Roman coins for direct sale on their web site. The coins are part of a bigger collection, which they call the “When in Rome Collection”. According to John Brush, DLRC Vice President, “the consignor of these coins is slowly… Continued...

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David Lawrence Rare Coins makes eBay home page

David Lawrence Rare Coins auction of Lincoln Cents featured on eBay's home page

We did it! We made the eBay home page with the promotion of our incredible Presidential Collection of PCGS Registry Lincoln Cents. The collection features 308 coins all at, or near the top of the finest known. With an estimated CU Value of over $1 Million this historic collection is… Continued...

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The Black Angus PCGS Registry Collection of Lincolns Cents now open for bidding

Black Angus Collection

We just posted the Black Angus Collection of Lincoln cents. It’s a really exciting collection of 395 certified Lincolns. Almost all coins are certified by PCGS, with a couple NGC’s, and nearly all coins are Red designations in grades ranging from MS63 to MS70! Nearly every issue in the series is represented from 1909 – 2010. This is a great collection for filling… Continued...

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eBay announces new policy on replicas

Earlier this morning, eBay sent the following message to its community of coin buyers and sellers. This is welcome news for those of us in the industry because many collectors have found the venue to be loaded with confusing offerings of real coins and replicas. I have been told personally by senior executives at eBay that this is the first step of many that the organization is taking to improve… Continued...

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2012 FUN Show Recap

This year, The FUN started Wednesday afternoon for dealers with a 2pm setup. Because of the timing there was no “pre-FUN” show this year as we’ve seen in years past, and also no time for any other auction companies to run a sale prior to the major Heritage event. From that perspective alone the show was quite different than in years past. John Brush and I started on Tuesday morning
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David Lawrence Rare Coins – Video newsletter posted

I have just posted our David Lawrence Rare Coins December 2011 video newsletter. While I now regret not spending more time in college taking broadcasting classes, I do enjoy the opportunity to speak about the events at DLRC. We’ve had a great year, and we’re really excited about big improvements to the web site in 2012 and I think the coin market, as a whole, will remain solid. Please… Continued...

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