Jason Smith

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Coins We Are Thankful For: Happy Thanksgiving!

As the year winds down and we enter the Holiday Season, we pause to reflect on 2024 and all we are thankful for. The most notable happenings this year included * We completed the construction of our new office building, giving us room to spread out and grow * We launched our

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Coins We Love: Capturing the Coin

One of the most frequent compliments we receive from our customers is how they love the accuracy of our coin images. We appreciate this feedback as we go to great lengths to provide the very best and most accurate images possible. We wanted to take this week's Coins

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Coins We Love: The CACG Hype!

The biggest story in the numismatic world continues to be the opening of CAC Grading. Talking with the CACG CFO, Brian Kint, over the past 6 months, I have gotten a real sense of the magnitude of details and coordination it has taken to bring this grading service to life.

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Coins We Love: When Tragedy Strikes

Some of you were affected by slight delays in our shipping over the past two weeks, and we truly appreciate your patience. We didn’t elaborate on “why” at the time, but as Jason mentions below it’s been a wild few weeks. We’re glad to finally be back

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Coins We Love: What's Up with Gold?!

We often get an uptick in activity when gold makes a run, especially when it nears record highs. This past month, gold has broken and held a $2,000+ price for 6 straight days, currently at $2,017 at this time of this note. In the past, this level has

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Coins We Love: 20 Years of Auctions

2023 marks the 20th year that we have been running weekly online auctions. Our Sunday Internet Auctions have grown in popularity with all sizes of collectors and dealers over the years mainly due to these four important factors. This week we started our 1,260th Sunday Auction. 1. Our auctions

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Coins We're Thankful For: 🍗Turkey Day🍗

Thanksgiving is a time for families to get together and enjoy home-cooked meals, football, and family traditions. It’s also a time to recognize our blessings and give thanks for all that we have. At DLRC, we are thankful for our wonderful staff that works hard every day to make

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Coins Dell Loy Loves: 👊Dell Loy's Takeover👊

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

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Coins We Love: 🌋Inventory Eruption!🌋

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

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Coins We Love: 🎶Good Morning Baltimore!🎶

This week finds us in Baltimore for the Summer Whitman Expo. I did spend a day before the show sleuthing for coins but was absent during the big trading day on Wednesday due to a 5th-grade graduation back home. However, we’re all back together now for the show on

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Coins We Love: 🌟Collections - A Unique Opportunity🌟

If you follow our CWL newsletters and the website weekly, you’ll notice the attention we try to bring to each customer collection we offer. We feel that these offerings are unique and deserve more attention than the normal certified material. For one, we want to let our bidders know

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Coins We Love: 👋Until Next Year!👋

We’re wrapping up 2021 with this final year-end Coins We Love. It’s been a strange year, but a good one for us and we appreciate all of the support, friendship, and conversations that we’ve had with you this year. So, thank you! While 2021 was an excellent

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Coins We Love: 👉Spotlight on Jason👈

Numismatic Spotlight: Jason Smith Like most kids growing up in the 60’s to 70’s, I was introduced to coins by earning a weekly allowance for doing household chores, receiving coins for birthday presents, doing well in school, and even trading teeth with the tooth fairy. I was born

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Coins We Love: ⚓Auction Anchors⚓

This week JB attended a small, dealer-only show in Tampa before returning home. We had planned on attending the upcoming PCGS Invitational Show in San Diego next week as well, but due to some unexpected circumstances, we’re having to pass on it and prepare for our next big event

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Coins We Love: DLRC's Auction Advantage

One question that tends to come up often with collectors is why should they participate in our Sunday Auctions? The answer typically takes customers by surprise, as one main reason is to get items at the best possible price. Our starting bid is basically a transparent reserve level that the

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Coins We Love: Building Relationships One Coin at a Time

This week’s CWL features a number of high-powered auction coins. As our 2nd Super Sunday Sale [https://www.davidlawrence.com/en-us/?auctionids=665829] ends this Sunday evening, we wanted to share a few of our exciting offerings in this event. We understand that these aren’t a fit for

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Coins We Love: Going the Extra Mile

The latest development at DLRC is the ability, or comfort level, to be able to travel for coins once again. This week John took off into the blue skies to visit some dealer friends, pick up a fantastic consignment from a long-time customer, and hit a small show in Sarasota.

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Coins We Love: The Collector Contribution

Our website is the face of our company and if you don’t attend major shows it’s probably all you will ever associate DLRC with. As a customer or casual viewer, we always want to make your browsing, bidding and buying experience as fluid and fun as possible. No

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Just Ask Jason: My Coin Looks Great!

If you couldn't tell from the title this is a special edition of our weekly Q&A column! With John busy wrangling new inventory, we are pleased to bring our Vice President and numismatist of 16 years in to fill in! Jason answers a question from a

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DLRC VAM Offerings

[https://www.davidlawrence.com/en-us?collectionIds=261021] [https://www.davidlawrence.com/en-us?collectionIds=261021] [<a href=]We here are DLRC are happy to offer a large assortment of VAMs in a wide array of condition and price. For the acute dollar collector, introducing VAMS into your collection can make

Coins We Love - June 2

Now that summer has arrived the travel schedule has started to pick up for us once again. It feels odd that a two week break seems like a long respite between shows, but Long Beach is looming once again and Devin and I (John Brush) will be in attendance next

Coins We Love - May 26

Summer has finally arrived in Virginia Beach and while the weather is turning, we are no less enthusiastic about the coin market. The fabulous Pogue collection auction concluded on Tuesday night with the two largest coins not selling due to aggressive reserves and, as some have said, seller’s remorse.

Coins We Love - May 19

The coin market is a funny thing. Coin dealers are certainly an interesting bunch and tend to have proclivities that focus around eating and travel. This week’s activities at the PCGS Invitational Show in New Orleans involved both. While in recent months we have become accustomed to the large

Coins We Love - Special Layaway Edition Volume 2

Last week I alluded to our busy season here at DLRC. While this was supposed to be the calm before the storm, the exact opposite occurred. Packages started arriving left and right, a really cool Morgan Dollar consignment was finally ready for offering (see the Twin Cities Collection here!) and

Coins We Love - Special Layaway Edition

Last week’s CWL came to you from about 35,000 feet up as the clock struck midnight on our return from the Central States Numismatic Society Coin Show. This week is not as glamorous since we’ve been in the office playing catch-up with the coins that have been