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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Dell Loy Hansen Starts Crossing Historic Collection to CAC Grading

CAC Grading Press Release - Aug. 8th, 2024: In what the President of CAC Grading describes as “the biggest news event in the history of third-party grading,” the owner of the most valuable collection of United States rare coins is now in the process of submitting all of his primary

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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

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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

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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

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Coins We Love: A Market Reflection

Recently, at the June Whitman Baltimore Expo, I was negotiating a deal of freshly certified silver dollars with a friend and fellow dealer when I noticed that several coins in similar grades had flopped in a recent major auction. In casual conversation, regarding the price, I mentioned those low comps

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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

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Coins We Love: Summer Seminar Recap

Happy Independence Day! While we are always thankful for our Independence, today we truly remember and enjoy the freedom we have as our own sovereign nation. However you choose to spend the day, we hope it’s a great one! If you are reading this, you are off to a

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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,

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Coins We Love: How Was Baltimore?

The summer Baltimore Show has forever been considered an underwhelming show, as many of the larger dealers and the collecting public are vacationing or stepping back to take a break. Our own expectations were somewhat tempered going in, but as soon as we arrived it was surprisingly active! Andy was

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Coins We Love: Capturing the Coin

One of the most frequent compliments we receive from our customers is how they love the accuracy of our coin images. We appreciate this feedback as we go to great lengths to provide the very best and most accurate images possible. We wanted to take this week's Coins

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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

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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

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Coins We Love: JC's CAC Grading Experience

Having been in numismatics nearly all my life as a collector, dealer, and now full-time buyer and numismatist at DLRC, one thing I have never gotten to do is try my hand as a coin grader. That all changed last week when John Albanese and company invited me to guest

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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

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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

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Coins We Love: Straight from Central States

Coming in live from the Central States Numismatic Society Show in lovely suburban Schaumburg, Illinois! Admittedly, I’ve never been a fan of coming to Schaumburg. The hotel and convention are amazing, many dealers typically show up, but collector attendance is typically poor. This year, however, the public attendance has

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Coins We Love: ANA National Coin Week

This week, April 21st-27th, we celebrate National Coin Week. A week-long tradition established by the American Numismatic Association with the goal of “attracting the general public to our hobby and consequently increasing our membership.” This year is especially important as it marks the 100-year anniversary of the first observance of