It’s hard to believe we’re approaching the middle of November. In fact, I’ve had several phone calls this week to set up meetings and events for the upcoming FUN show in January. I’m truly not ready for that, but the calendar won’t wait. And, it's

As expected, last week was somewhat of a blur. The Baltimore show is kind of “old hat” for us and it went well. We had a team that attended the event from Tuesday-Friday. The early buying and wholesale activity on Wednesday was extremely active with plenty of opportunities to be

This week has been a little bit crazy as we traveled to Baltimore and are now heading to Greenville, South Carolina. This is the first time we’ve done any of the smaller shows in quite a while but we’re excited to be able to return back to what

They say that patience is a virtue. As a coin collector, it is required, but many of us struggle with it. Searching for the perfect coin (that may or may not exist), looking for the right “value”, or waiting for a coin to come back from grading or CAC -

The worst-kept secret in the coin business was announced today. Certified Acceptance Corp (CAC) is officially morphing into a real, live grading company. You can read today’s Coin World interview with John Albanese here [https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/cac-grading-service-planned-for-start-in-2023?fbclid=IwAR2ypUL55G3mWFTHOOkNvmwxY-Bu_gMdz-YnuN9hoMuuWla-TukdpR0TCvw] . People have been asking Albanese

For those of you who follow the larger coin market, you know that the Harry Bass Jr. Core Collection, which was housed at the ANA Museum for the past 20+ years, is now on the auction market and the first of four installments hit the block last week. These coins

This week we have changed the title of our weekly email slightly to “Coins Dell Loy Loves”. As most of you are aware, Dell Loy Hansen (collector extraordinaire) is a partner at DLRC. Over the past 3 years, this strategic relationship has helped our company grow in size and scope

Coinflation - I thought I had invented a word today. My concept of the word was a combination of the post-pandemic increasing prices and the often-discussed concept of gradeflation. Both of these terms affect coins and their value. I googled it and went down a rabbit trail of reading. How

I was speaking to a dealer friend of mine yesterday for the first time since the ANA show in August. His business is quite different than ours as he runs a successful shop and operation on the West Coast. However, we like to bounce ideas off of each other as

Like many of you, I have been a collector of one thing or another for nearly all my life. For me, it was baseball cards, comic books, arrowheads, various old padlocks, pocket watches, and knives that my grandfather continuously gifted to me. And of course, coins! Have you ever considered

For the past year, we have talked about how hot the coin market is and how prices have steadily risen across the board in almost all series. As prices increased we found it harder and harder to find/buy coins, particularly from other dealers. The market may not have peaked

We survived the 2022 World’s Fair of Money. Instead of doing a complete write-up this week, I wanted to share a few bullet points of interest. Funniest Part of the Show: The shoe shine guy had his booth set up about 20 feet from our table. After three days

This week we are at the ANA World’s Fair of Money in Rosemont, IL. We arrived on Sunday for the pre-show trading room and have literally been running non-stop since. As of today (Thursday morning), there have been breakfast appointments, dinner events, and a full day of working at

The ANA World’s Fair of Money is next week and we are so excited to see you there! This week has been hectic as we plan, prepare, and pack for the week-long national show. However, we have been gearing up for a while and we think we're just about

Picking up from where we left off last week, we indeed did get to visit the original mint in San Francisco on Thursday evening. While the original building was destroyed years ago by an earthquake, the vault that housed the gold during the California Gold Rush was virtually unharmed due

This week, the team is holding down the office, catching up on coin processing, and figuring incoming packages. However, I am pretending that I’m a lot younger than I actually am by spending the week teaching a class at Witter Coin U and hanging out with young numismatists. We

It’s hard to believe that the summer is basically half over! That means that the ANA's World’s Fair of Money is coming up in less than a month. We’re being dragged kicking and screaming back to Rosemont, but at least we know where we are going and

As some of you may have noticed in the past two Coins We Love, I took a break from writing the messages, as I was on vacation with my family. I hope that you enjoyed hearing from a few different people. From the survey results, it’s clear that we

The CWL started as a simple idea back in 2015 to help keep our customers informed of DLRC news, industry happenings, and new special coin offerings. It has since grown into a weekly email put together by a small team of individuals at our office with thousands of readers each

Something I always ask myself when buying coins for DLRC is, “What is the current state of the market?” For roughly a year now the answer to that has largely been: robust beyond belief! It took me a while to shift my buying habits so that I could buy a

Growing up, I never expected to be a coin dealer. I found it to be a fun hobby that integrated with my interest in history and it was something that I could share with my father (and later my mother). But, it was never something that I thought could be

The coin hobby doesn’t really have “seasons” as there is always activity somewhere across the internet, but the same doesn’t always hold true for shows. We returned from the recent Whitman Baltimore Show last week and the result was exactly what we expected. The show was incredibly well-run