coins we love Coins We Love: The Final Interview with John Brush First of all, thank you for all of the messages regarding the first two parts of the interview. It’s been a lot of fun interacting and seeing our customers' thoughts on some of my comments. Perhaps it’s naïveté, but I’ve always been one to honestly share
coins we love Coins We Love: An Interview with John Brush Part 2 As mentioned last week, I was asked several questions and thought they might make for a good CWL… or two (or three!) — so, here is Q&A with John Brush Part Two! The US mint has made an “instant rarity” by striking 230 of the 2024 Gold Flowing Hair
coins we love Coins We Love: An Interview with John Brush Every year I get a series of questions from a numismatic journalist friend that asks questions about the previous year and expectations for the following year. Not all of the answers are included in the resulting article (which is probably a good thing), but I figured that I’d take
coins we love Coins We Love: Parenting and Coin Collecting Parenting, like coin collecting, can be difficult! I learn this every day in my household because everything can’t always be perfect, especially when you’re dealing with High School Spanish and Algebra. But sometimes you settle for doing the best that you can. In working with collectors, sometimes this
coins we love Coins We Love: Baltimore Again Baltimore; kind of feels like Groundhog Day. They do a great job running this show and it’s always a consistent winner when it comes to attendance, business, and activity. Looking back at 20 years of attending Baltimore Shows I realized this week that I surpassed having spent an entire
coins we love Coins We Fear: Happy Halloween! Happy Halloween, All Hallow’s Eve, and Reformation Day! We hope that everyone is having a great week. It’s been an incredibly busy one here with the normal goings-on while adding a return from the SCNA show. It was a quality event for us and we had a blast
coins we love Coins We Love: What Happens at Small Shows? The lifeblood of the hobby of numismatics is the collector. The wholesale market revolves around what is in demand, what can be sold to collector (eventually) or what folks find interesting. Ultimately, the more we try to branch out as a hobby/industry, the answers really comes down to “what
coins we love Coins We Love: Active Yet Calm Last weekend’s visit to the local Tidewater Coin Club Show was an enjoyable one for us. While it’s not as big as the hustling and bustling national shows we typically attend, it was nice for our staff to get a few hours away to see what a live
coins we love Coins We Love: Exciting Website Upgrade! This week, if you’re in the local area, come see us at the Tidewater Coin Club Show at the Virginia Beach Convention Center. We’ll be set up all day Friday and Saturday! We didn’t have a local presence for years due to tax issues, but we’re
coins we love Coins We Love: We Bought a Business?! First of all, our thoughts and prayers are with those in the southwestern part of North Carolina and in my hometown area of upstate South Carolina and Eastern Tennessee. While my friends and family seem to be fine, the scenes have not been pleasant and while we’re in a
coins we love Coins We Love: September Happenings This week doesn’t seem to be too remarkable, but things are always moving in many different directions. But, as I’ve said before, the joy in what we do is that every day we come into the office and absolutely nothing is the same. You don’t know what
coins we love Coins We Love: Numismatic Economics With the recent interest rate drop, it made me start thinking further about the economics of numismatics. During the Covid lockdown, we saw the price of coins skyrocket. Of course, everyday items also increased (remember the toilet paper scarcity?) to the point that we’ve reached now, where fast food
coins we love Coins We Love: Tampa's Version Does a coin show really happen if no one shows up? I jest…this has been the best dealer-attended new show that we’ve seen in over a decade. The dealers really showed up and all of the tables are occupied. Unfortunately, the public attendance seems to be lacking. Perhaps
coins we love Coins We Love: Busy Show Season Schools have officially started back, the evenings aren’t as warm and humid, and things are slowly getting back to what seems like normal. Overall, the ANA Show and the incredibly busy summer of shows and events have finally ended and we’ve had a few days to catch our
coins we love Coins We Love: Focusing on the Fun To know me is to know that running a business isn’t my first love. I realize that and am not afraid to admit it. The coins are truly what energizes my passion. The stories, the history, and the beauty…that’s really the fun part. If you look at
coins we love Coins We Love: A Successful World's Fair! We touched on the first days of the World’s Fair of Money last week and the later days continued the positive aura that carried the show. Overall, we had a record buying event and an uncommon number of sales in all price ranges. As I’ve been explaining to
coins we love Coins We Love: Award-Winning Website! We’re thrilled to announce that we won the Numismatic Literary Guild (NLG) Award for the Best Dealer Website for 2024! Our programming team of Tyler and Lisandro, along with Andy’s work laying out the content of the site are to be commended! As our most avid readers will
coins we love Coins We Love: See You In Rosemont! Any coins you want to see in person? Email us at coins@davidlawrence.com to see them at the ANA World’s Fair of Money at Table 504. This week has been an absolute whirling dervish as I returned from teaching at Witter Coin U on Sunday evening, only to
coins we love Coins We Love: Last-Minute Cancellations Were Mint To Be Last Saturday, I was scheduled to fly to San Francisco with Wes to attend the Witter Coin U educational event. I’ve been honored to teach at this event for the past 4 years and it’s even more fun this year as Wes was invited to come back for
coins we love Coins We Love: Summer FUN The Summer FUN Show in Orlando marks the middle of numismatic's summer season. Overall, the show has gained new legs since the Covid pandemic and has turned into a decent regional event, with enough action to warrant attending. While there are fewer dealers here than some of the
coins we love Coins We Love: Furthering the Hobby If you’ve been around the numismatic hobby long enough, you know there aren’t a lot of options for education professionally or as a dedicated collector. However, one of the best and longest-running opportunities for all collectors has now been running for over 50 years and two weeks ago,
coins we love Coins We Love: Today We Remember Today is an important day of remembrance. As I woke up and got ready, I had the opportunity to watch some of the D-Day Remembrance ceremonies that occurred in France this morning. While that was a generation before me, the shocking images, writings, and scenes available of this momentous event
coins we love Coins We Love: DLRC's On A Mission Sometimes we start on a mission and we’re not quite sure where we’re going to end up. This week, we’re in the middle of a staff review process. We use this activity to analyze our strengths/weaknesses and recognize things we need to improve as a company
coins we love Coins We Love: Price, Value, Quality, and Relationships I’m sure many of you have heard the saying “Price, quality, value, pick two”. Perhaps that is true sometimes, but in a service industry, it honestly should not be. Selling unnecessary items may be more of an emotional purchase or a tangible investment. A couple of conference calls and
coins we love Coins We Love: Late Night Ramblings Sometimes the time gets away from you when you’re focusing on tasks that must be finished. Last night I closed up shop a little late because we were working on consignment payments and squaring things up from the recent show. The details of running a business are not always
