Coins We Love: The Light at the End of the Tunnel

We hope that our friends throughout the middle of the country have started to thaw out and that things are improving for you. This week we’ve noticed a rash of shipping delays that have occurred once again due to the recent weather issues. That, along with the high priority

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Coins We Love: Market Heats Up as Winter Intensifies

We understand that many of you in the middle of the country are dealing with some extreme weather conditions, so we hope that you are safe, warm, and healthy. We were lucky to avoid the mess this week on the southeastern coast of Virginia, though our folks in the New

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Coins We Love: Bushels of Deals

Well, the week started rather ominously with a few IT issues and the internet being down in our office. For those of you who normally get your invoices immediately and pay them quickly, we apologize for the delay! We got things moving along by noon and thanks to our billing

Coins We Love: Auction Insights

One of the most interesting parts of my job here at DLRC is setting up our Sunday Internet Auctions [https://www.davidlawrence.com/en-us?status=Auction]. I have found over the years that choosing the correct selection of coins to create the optimum quantity, value and mix of material

Coins We Love: Always Adapting

It’s only been a week since my last CWL message, but it feels like so much longer. I can’t pinpoint exactly why, although I’m sure that it’s some combination of the ongoings at DLRC, the political changes, and the overall shifts in the numismatic universe (I’

Coins We Love: Jumping into January

Just when we were finally feeling caught up around the office from the holidays the packages starting flooding...Luckily we got a chance to start the Super Sunday Sale [https://www.davidlawrence.com/en-us/?auctionids=657813] a few weeks early before the Fedex and USPS drivers could find our

Coins We Love: New Year, New Adventures

Well, we started off 2021 with a bang, literally and figuratively. The fireworks outside were tempered for the year, but it was a nice reminder that every 365 days we get a fresh start. Although we continue to face some of the limitations last year brought, we're beginning

Coins We Love: Good Riddance 2020

First of all, I want to thank each of you who shared a note with me (John) this week regarding my father. I received many touching stories of how collecting is so often a generational hobby that is passed down. I couldn’t even comment on them all, however I

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Coins We Love: Numismatic Legacy

We’re coming to you a day early this week as we’ve decided to close the office for a 4-day holiday weekend. As always, we be monitoring our voicemails and emails during our time away, so if we can help you, please just let us know. But, most

Coins We Love: Shipping Delays & Christmas Buffets

I had told several folks in the last week or two that I was wondering if we were going to be able to source neat coins for the next 4-5 months. Then today I look down and see we’ve spent another million dollars this week on great coins!

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Tantalizing $2.5 Gold

Quarter eagles were minted from 1796 to 1929, with many gaps along the way. They’re a very popular series among serious collectors due to the variety of design types and the span of history with which they illustrate. Also, despite some miniscule mintage numbers, there are no real stoppers

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DLRC Holiday Collector Special!

Customer Appreciation Month at DLRC! The holiday season is fast approaching and it is a time to reflect on how we can show our appreciation for your continued business throughout this difficult year. If you’ve bought from DLRC in the past we know you have quality coins and we’

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Coins We Love: A Wild Wintry Week!

This has been an adventurous week in the world of coins. While the home life is starting to turn into HGTV re-runs and too many Hallmark Holiday movies, the dog and I have been busy answering emails and working in the evenings. It’s a good thing that we

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DLRC Press Release: Perfection Collection Concluded!

David Lawrence Rare Coins (DLRC) concluded its offering of the Perfection Collection, the #1 rated PCGS Registry Set of Seated Liberty Proof Half Dollars with CAC approval on Nov. 29th with spectacular results. While each of the coins were offered with a minimum value to the consignor, the collection achieved

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Coins We Love: A Fond Farewell

I came to DLRC in July 2006 from a large, wholesale-based coin company in an attempt to move closer to family. While I had been in the coin business for several years full-time, I had worked as a dealer on the side for over a decade beforehand. Upon

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Seated Liberty Half Dollar Proofs & the Perfection Collection

Proof coins from the mid-19thcentury are among the most under-appreciated issues in numismatics. Proof issues of all denominations were minted sporadically until 1858, when it is generally believed that the sale of proof sets to individual collectors at a small premium began under Mint Director J.R. Snowden.

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Coins We Love: Thanksgiving Edition!

This week’s CWL comes to you a day earlier than normal as our offices will be closed Thursday and Friday for the Thanksgiving holiday. We appreciate your understanding and encourage you to reach out to us via email at coins@davidlawrence.com if we can be of assistance during

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Coins We Love: A New Wave of Collectors

First of all, thank you to everyone who wrote back messages of all types and lengths regarding last week’s message. It’s always a please to hear from the readers and it makes my midnight ramblings a little easier to write the next week. Last week was supposed to

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Coins We Love: November News!

This past weekend was absolutely beautiful and with the weather in the 80s the bike paths were active and the boardwalk in Virginia Beach had plenty of folks getting some socially distanced exercise. Today the rain has come in and begins the Fall period that we’d expect for November.

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The 1909-S VDB Lincoln Cent

For almost 100 years of American history, it was illegal to put a real person on a coin. When the first coins were issued some people suggested putting George Washington on them, but he protested, arguing that having the president’s image on coinage would be too similar to monarchal

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Panama-Pacific Commemoratives

1915 was an exciting year for the United States. The Panama Pacific International Exposition was held in San Francisco to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal, a project begun back in the 1880s by French engineers and finally finished by the US in 1914. For the time, the grandeur

Morgan Dollar Registry Sets

If you’ve been collecting coins for even just a couple months, chances are that you’ve already seen how immensely popular the Morgan dollar series is. Minted from 1878 to 1921, commonly in massive numbers, thousands of Morgan dollars were stashed in bank vaults for decades before being released

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How COVID Has Changed DLRC

At DLRC, we have a slightly different view than most businesses when we look outside our windows. We don’t have a storefront, nor do we deal with the general public in person, so we often sit here in a state of pandemic, wondering “what’s next?” It’s a

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Coins We Love: Current Market Report

We've added another week to the ticker of time being spent in Virginia Beach and not elsewhere on the coin circuit. A few shows have popped up in different areas in recent weeks and attendance (collector and dealer-wise) has apparently been off the charts when compared to

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The 1897 Proof Set

The 1897 proof set was issued at an interesting time for the hobby, and its relative scarcity is not fully appreciated by collectors today. By many accounts 1897 was a slow year for numismatics. In December 1896, after a period of diminished activity, The Numismatist and the American Numismatic Association