coins we love Coins We Love: 💸The Deals Keep Coming💸 The response to last week’s message was surprising, yet refreshing. Collecting coins is something we’re passionate about and also something we get to enjoy on a daily basis. The stories of collectors and how we can relate to each other are always fun to hear. The number of
coins we love Coins We Love: 🚩Coin Traffic Controllers🚩 This week DLRC has felt as much like a logistics company as it has a rare coin company. You wouldn’t think that logistics play a huge part in this industry, but it’s actually a very key piece of the puzzle. Just this week we had to arrange getting
coins we love Coins We Love: ✨Thanksgiving Collections✨ Maybe the fourth time is the charm. This is the 4th message that I’ve written so far with the intention of sending…The reason for all of the edits is due to a press release that hit my inbox at 5 pm on Wednesday. You can see it here.
coins we love Coins We Love: 😳Christmas Shopping?!😳 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&
coins we love Coins We Love: ✌Show Summary✌ 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
coins we love Coins We Love: 😵Busy Week😵 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
coins we love Coins We Love: 🔑Patience is Key🔑 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 -
coins we love Coins We Love: 🙀The CAC is Out of the Bag🙀 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
coins we love Coins We Love: 🐠🎸Bass Collection Update🐠🎸 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
coins we love Coins We Love: ⏫Coinflation Hesitation ⏫ 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
coins we love Coins We Love: 💸The Ebb and Flow of the Coin Show💸 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
coins we love Coins We Love: 😅We Survived the ANA😅 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
coins we love Coins We Love: 👋Live from the ANA👋 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
coins we love Coins We Love: 🌉San Fran Fun!🌉 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
coins we love Coins We Love: 📒Teaching Time📒 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
coins we love Coins We Love: 🌻Summertime Lulls🌻 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
coins we love Coins We Love: 💫Alaskan Gold💫 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
coins we love Coins We Love: 🎂CWL Turns 7!🎂 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
coins we love Coins We Love: 😎Dealer of the Year😎 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
coins we love Coins We Love: 💰Coin Market Recap💰 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
coins we love 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
coins we love Coins We Love: ☀ Summertime Selections ☀ We hope that you were able to take some time this past Memorial Day to honor those who have sacrificed so much for our country. I know that we get caught up in the hustle and bustle of the world around us, but in our little corner of Virginia, it’
coins we love Coins We Love: 👉Spotlight on Andy👈 This week finds John Call and I in New Orleans at the PCGS Members Only Show. It’s been rather active and we’ve acquired a few new coins that you’ll be seeing in the coming weeks. But, as a result of the beignets and jambalaya, we’re a
coins we love Coins We Love: 🔑Integrity is Key🔑 In today’s world of robocalls and fraud alerts, our “scam radar” always seems to be on ready standby. Whether it's car warranties, credit card offers, or my kids seeing too good-to-be true Lego deals on Facebook, it seems we’ve all become a bit cynical when it
coins we love Coins We Love: 💪Still Going Strong💪 We have returned from the Central States Show with a lot of momentum and we’re now catching up on several deals that have come through our offices in recent weeks as well as collections that are hitting our website on a weekly basis. The news throughout the coin business