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Coins We Love: Guten Tag!

One of my goals running for the ANA Board of Governors was that I wanted to reach out and learn more about parts of the hobby that were unknown to me. I looked at this honor as an opportunity to not only learn more about how I could serve the

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Coins We Love: There's No "Right Way"

This week I’ve been traveling a lot, but it’s allowed me to think about some conversations I’ve had with customers over the last few weeks and about the “culture” of numismatics and how things differ between collectors and collecting styles. It’s quite interesting, as there’s

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DLRC Launches New Red Carpet Rarities Auction Series with Complete US Quarter Set, 1796-1964

DLRC is premiering a brand new weekly auction event, closing every Thursday evening, starting in February. The Red Carpet Rarities Auctions will feature a highly curated selection of no more than 100 coins each week, featuring important collections, registry-quality coins, key dates, and other meaningful numismatic items. These exclusive auction

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Coins We Love: Red Carpet Rarities Auctions

We put out a press release today announcing our new Red Carpet Rarities Auction Series! You can read the whole press release here. As we’ve had some amazing collections brought to us in recent months, it’s become increasingly noticeable that collectors want a place to highlight THEIR collections.

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DLRC Announces New Red Carpet Rarities Auction Series

Virginia Beach, VA: DLRC is premiering a brand new weekly auction event, closing every Thursday evening, starting in February. The Red Carpet Rarities Auctions will feature a highly curated selection of no more than 100 coins each week, featuring important collections, registry-quality coins, key dates, and other meaningful numismatic items.

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Coins We Love: A Peacock Named Wes

These weekly messages can sometimes be challenging to write. I was a stringer in college for a local newspaper and the editor of the sports section in my college newspaper, but that was merely because I wanted free access to sporting events and needed the money to get through college.

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Coins We Love: FUN Events!

We’ve had a few extra days to mentally process the FUN Show and all of the events that occurred during the week. I keep thinking “Man, I’m still really tired.” While nothing was notably different than the past several FUN shows, it felt weird. This year, the pre-show

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Coins We Love: The FUN Show Means More

Sometimes a coin show is more than a coin show. The FUN Show is one of the two biggest shows of the year. It runs seamlessly (if you can forgive the nickel and diming that occur at check-in for your booth, the lack of trash cans, and the security concern

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Coins We Love: Happy New Year!

Happy Holidays Everyone! We hope that each of you are enjoying some of the quickly approaching winter weather and time with family or friends during this holiday season. The office has been running with limited staffing during the holidays as we have a number of folks out of town with

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Coins We Love: Happy Holidays!

Thanks for the emails last week. As I mentioned, it was a little odd to be discussing the family adventures in Las Vegas, but I appreciated the kind words…and at some point I guess we just have to own who we are. At DLRC we’re not an unidentifiable

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Coins We Love: Las Vegas Fun!

As mentioned last week, the PCGS Members Only Show was a rousing success last week. The bourse floor was bustling and the trading activity was outstanding. We didn’t expect it to be as active as it was, but we returned with 3-4 boxes of fresh, new inventory, including some

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Coins We Love: End of the Year Rush

This has probably been the busiest holiday season we’ve seen in numismatics! With the number of collections we’ve had coming in at the office over the last few weeks, we’ve been processing, imaging, and evaluating coins left and right. This is an exciting time, but it often

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Coins We Love: Office Ongoings

I’m tempted to sound like a broken record and talk about the upcoming collections coming through the office again. However, I can't elaborate on the coins yet, so I’ll save that for another week. Let’s just say that we have some amazing, high-quality pieces coming

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Coins We Are Thankful For: Happy Thanksgiving!

Having been on the road for at least part of the last 6 weeks, I have something new to be thankful for… being home for the Thanksgiving holiday! The coin business does require an abnormal amount of traveling to visit customers, pick up coins, attend trade shows, etc…but it’

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Coins We Love: Did Someone Flip the Switch on Thursday?

Better late than never! We apologize for the late CWL message, but we have been thoroughly tied up with the show (in a good way)! Yes, it’s Baltimore week. And, while it’s kind of like Groundhog Day when you wake up here, there’s always some little thing

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Coins We Love: Up Next - Baltimore!

As we wrote about last week, we were all over the East Coast. The New Hampshire show was small, but Amandeep found a few treasures including a complete GSA Dollar set which will be coming to auction in a week or so. South Carolina was a success for John Call

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Coins We Love: Four States in One Week

It has already felt like an intensely busy week and it’s not even Friday yet! John Call was on the road to North Carolina and middle Virginia picking up some interesting deals on Monday and Tuesday. That’s when we split up into three different directions! John Call is

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Coins We Love: Where Do You Hide Your Coins?

Come see us next week at the Nashville, Tennessee IMEX Show on Friday or Saturday, or at the SCNA Show in Greenville, SC on Thursday or Friday. We’ve spread out our show locations due to the busy schedule, but we hope to run into you at one of these

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Coins We Love: Numismatic Field Trips Pt. 2

Honestly, I didn’t know what I was getting into when I ran for the ANA Board. I knew that I wanted to help make a difference in the largest coin-collecting organization in the world, but I didn’t really know what that would entail. After the election, we were

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Coins We Love: Numismatic Field Trips Pt. 1

I’m writing this on a flight from Colorado Springs to Denver, Colorado. I’ve never been on such a large jet with so few people. And, for less than 15 minutes! But it’s fitting as I’m in the middle of a series of trips that I’ve

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Coins We Love: What's Happening at DLRC?

Our good news for the week is that our office renovation is nearly complete! We’ve been setting up makeshift offices and rotating locations for the past month while the water-damaged carpet is replaced and the walls are painted. There is light at the end of the tunnel, and by

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Coins We Love: The Smithsonian Collection

As a young child, I was lucky enough to have two coin clubs in Greenville, SC, that were just 30 minutes down the road. My calendar was built around coin shows within a 2-4 hour radius and the major coin events like the ANA Summer Seminar, with school coming in

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Coins We Love: The CACG Hype!

The biggest story in the numismatic world continues to be the opening of CAC Grading. Talking with the CACG CFO, Brian Kint, over the past 6 months, I have gotten a real sense of the magnitude of details and coordination it has taken to bring this grading service to life.

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Coins We Love: When Tragedy Strikes

Some of you were affected by slight delays in our shipping over the past two weeks, and we truly appreciate your patience. We didn’t elaborate on “why” at the time, but as Jason mentions below it’s been a wild few weeks. We’re glad to finally be back

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Coins We Love: D.L. Hansen Collection Update

As promised two weeks ago, I wanted to share a brief update on the Hansen Collection from our recent trip to the Pittsburgh ANA. With the final auction session from the Bass Collection, there was one coin that was needed and a few others that we wanted if they were