coins we love Coins We Love: Special Edition! Welcome to the CWL: Special Edition! We're excited to offer one of the prettiest coins that we've handled ever along with one of the newest coins to hit the market in this special weekend offering. We believe we are one of the first people to receive
coins we love Coins We Love: The Latest Hansen Collection Purchase With all of the excitement from the FUN Show winding down, this week has given us some time to lick our wounds and catch up on some much-needed coin work in the office. It’s been an incredibly productive time back home and I think you’ll notice some of
press release DLRC and D.L. Hansen Complete Charlotte Gold Collection The Hansen Quest to acquire an example of every standard issue US coin since 1792 has added another great rarity to the cabinet of the D.L. Hansen Collection. On Tuesday evening, after an extensive bidding competition, DLRC’s John Brush was able to secure the 1849 Charlotte Mint Open
coins we love Coins We Love: Final FUN Show Recap Typically, coin dealers flock south for the Winter FUN Show in hopes of a little warm weather, some sunshine, and maybe a day of relaxation amidst a week of brutally long trading days and meet-ups. This year did not serve those opportunities as the thermometer was unkind, with chilly temperatures
coins we love Coins We Love: We're Having a FUN Time! I’m not going to lie, the FUN Show is a lot of things! It starts off exciting, fantastic, welcoming, and rejuvenating. After 3 days it becomes tiring and long. After 5 days it's exhausting. And on day 7, when some of us finally return home, it is
coins we love Coins We Love: Happy New Year! Happy New Year! Reminder for our New Jersey Readers: No more tax on orders to New Jersey over $1,000! We’re a day late, but hopefully not a Morgan Dollar short. We’ve made our way through the holidays, which can be a challenge working around everyone’s family
press release DLRC Announces the Launch of New Want List Feature DLRC is excited to announce the launch of its new want list website feature. This multi-faceted software addition is an incredible new tool that allows collectors to follow any (and all) issues that they are interested in and will receive notifications when an example is added to the website. A
coins we love Coins We Love: Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas to our loyal CWL readers! We hope you all had a fantastic holiday season filled with family and friends, good food, fond memories, and lots of laughter! The end of the year is such a fantastic time to reflect on the year and look forward to the upcoming
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 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
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 Love: Deals and Dealmakers The Deals: Here at DLRC, we seem to have hit a nice little run of deals coming our way recently! With the Brooklyn Collection and the Stockyard Collection recently ending, we continue to anticipate more consignments and deals coming our way so we can continue to load the website with
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: Upcoming Tampa Show This week finds us gearing up for the three-day holiday weekend! Our office will be closed on Monday, but our website is always open with thousands of coins available for bidding and outright purchase. If you need anything over the weekend, email us. We will be checking our inboxes and
