DLRC Auction

The 1888 $3 Gold

The $3 gold piece was first minted in 1854, prompted by the price of stamps. At the time, a single first class stamp cost three cents, so purchasing a sheet of 100 stamps cost $3. The idea was to make it easier to pay for this with exact change; the

coins we love

Coins We Love: Visit the ANA Museum!

Interestingly, I had a lot of feedback from readers this past week regarding my horse-riding experience. I never realized that there was such a cross-over between coin collectors and horses, but apparently it’s quite prevalent. Another amusing cross-over that is more specific to coin dealers, is the prominence of

So-Called Dollars

Lesher's "So-Called" Dollars

This week we are excited to offer an intriguing new collection – the Broad Bay Collection of So-Called Dollars [https://www.davidlawrence.com/en-us?collectionIds=302103]. "So-Called Dollars" are medals from the 1800s and 1900s roughly the size of a silver dollar that were commonly struck to commemorate historic

DLRC Auction

The 1804 $10 Gold Eagle

The most famous 1804 coin may be the silver dollar, but it wasn’t the only interesting piece bearing this date. 1804 was the last year of the Draped Bust $10 gold eagle, a denomination that wasn’t minted again until 1838. It’s believed that somewhere between 2,500

CWL

Coins We Love: Home Improvement

My apologies for last week’s CWL message! My family and I had just returned from a socially-distanced vacation and I've been playing a bit of catch up around the office. Thursday went by like a speedboat and Friday…well it was busy, and that’s always a

DLRC Press

View the Entire DLRC Press Catalog Online!

We are often asked about the books that we published at the DLRC Press that were once available on our website. Thanks to the Internet Archive [https://archive.org/], a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that hosts a free digital academic library, we are now able to offer our entire

CWL

Coins We Love: Mid-September Mayhem

This week has gotten ahead of us a bit and unfortunately we do not have a lengthy message to share in this week's CWL. For those of you who enjoy this sort of thing, we promise to double up next week and hopefully make it twice as interesting!

coins we love

Coins We Love: Short Week Specials

We hope that the Labor Day weekend was a nice conclusion of summer for each of you. The shortened week at DLRC always creates an atmosphere of organized chaos upon our return and this time was no different. While Tuesday was full of coins flying all over the office, it

DLRC News

Sold! $10k+ Coins Heat Up!

We talk with customers every day about our inventory, their collections, coins in auction etc. and one common question that typically comes up is “What’s hot right now?”  Because we sell a broad range of series and grade levels, this is often a difficult question to answer.  When we

CWL

Coins We Love: Happy Labor Day

This week has been a nice change of pace for us as things seemed to just move a bit smoother. We somewhat expected that going into a holiday weekend, but you never know for sure until it arrives. As usual, the auction is plugging along, there are packages flying in

JAJ

Just Ask John: More nuTilt Questions

We’ve received quite a bit of feedback in the past week regarding our trial release of nuTilt imaging. It’s truly been rather exciting for us here at DLRC. While we released it to “test” the project before a full release, it was picked up and broadcast by a

nuTilt

DLRC Imaging and nuTilt: Capturing Every Detail

Coin photography and imaging are very fickle topics. When a person views a coin in-hand, sometimes the viewer sees the coin as reddish-orange, while their neighbor views it as a subdued bronze. When the coin is photographed, it can even take the tone of a rose-gold trinket. All of this

CWL

Coins We Love: nuTilt News and Newman Portals

Wow! What a week. Thank you for the kind words and constructive help with our new imaging platform, nuTilt. We’ve continued to work through it this week and have added a few slight improvements as we can. Over on our blog we also have a helpful FAQ on nuTilt

nuTilt

Introducing nuTilt!

David Lawrence Rare Coins (DLRC) and nuTilt Imaging are excited to introduce a brand-new imaging technology to the hobby of numismatics. NuTilt is a patent-pending process that brings coin imaging to life! The limitation of coin images today is that they are static; nuTilt breaks this barrier, showing how the

nuTilt

NuTilt FAQ

DLRC is proud to partner with nuTilt to introduce this revolutionary imaging to the hobby. You can read more about it in our introduction here [https://blog.davidlawrence.com/introducing-nutilt/]. Right now, nuTilt imaging is available exclusively through DLRC, but if you have consignments that qualify, DLRC is happy to

CWL

CWL: Introducing nuTilt

As good as our imaging department is, we've always had to tell customers that the coin looks better in-hand. The reality is, a still image, no matter how well photo-graphed can only show so much, and we've always hoped to be able to someday bridge that

NNP Symposium

John Brush at the NNP Symposium

These are tumultuous times for the world at large, and our industry certainly is not exempt. As we’re sure you’re all aware by now, the ANA World’s Fair of Money has been postponed although we’ve seen a few small, socially distanced coin shows across the country,

registry sets

Step up Your Collecting with a Registry Set

There are plenty of different ways to collect. In the past, albums were the most popular – they provided a safe, organized method for storing coins, and provided a framework for a set. However, with the advent of third part grading, albums are being envisioned in new ways. Perhaps most notable

CWL

Coins We Love: Weathering the Storms

Some weeks are better than others, but the one thing we’ve learned is that we shouldn’t be surprised by anything in 2020. On Monday we were welcomed to our office with locked doors thanks to an electrical issue and once we were finally able to enter, our internet

DLRC Auction

DLRC Eye Appeal Rating Explained

Our Eye Appeal rating is a scale from 1 to 5 stars, 5 stars being the best possible eye appeal. Every coin is reviewed by a staff numismatist with the coin in hand and is done to give the online viewer a true assessment of the complete look. Taking into

CWL

Coins We Love: It's Raining Gold and Silver!

Well, this week at DLRC has proved to be a remarkably interesting one. We were supposed to be in Pittsburgh, PA for the World’s Fair of Money, but it was understandably canceled. Two substitute shows popped up in Dallas and Las Vegas this week and we considered attending those

Just Ask John

Just Ask John: How Coin Buying Has Changed with COVID-19

> How are you guys getting so much inventory week in and week out when you aren't going to coin shows? -Dave G. As you might know, we’ve taken the Covid-19 situation quite seriously at DLRC. Seeing as my family cares for an elderly father and an

DLRC Color Rating Explained

Our "color rating" or degree of toning on coin listings refers to the overall amount of toning on a coin with respect to its original look at minting. We use a scale of one to five for all denominations and series. Below is an explanation of each rating

CWL

Coins We Love: Golden Opportunities!

Wow! What a week. Last Friday gold reached what was very close to a record high, so when Sunday evening arrived and the market opened overseas, I saw gold jumping all around, beating record numbers from several years ago. At that point, I knew that we’d have a crazy

JAJ

Just Ask John: Why Sell with DLRC

We’ve had a few weeks off between JAJ posts, but there’s no one to blame but myself. Some weeks you just get a little bit of writer’s block and it’s difficult to sit down and answer any of the questions that have been posed. As my