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Coins We Love: Countdown to the World’s Fair of Money

This week there was an opportunity to attend a regional show in St. Louis, but we declined on the trip as it’s surprisingly difficult to get to St. Louis from Norfolk. It turns out sometimes it’s just better to be in the office as collections and deals seem

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Coins We Love: Calling for Consignments!

Well, word has it that the Summer FUN show was the busiest it has ever been…collectors crowded the aisles and there were dealers hanging around until Saturday afternoon (which is a rarity). Unfortunately for us, our travel was thwarted, but we were thrilled to hear of the activity that

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Coins We Love: Weather Changes Plans

For those of you hoping to drop by to see us at the Summer FUN show, we’re sorry for the late notice, but Hurricane Elsa canceled our flights and we were unable to make it down there this week. We are as disappointed as anyone with the issue, especially

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Coins We Love: Return of the Coin Show and a Hot Market

Well, I had a nice little message about the summer in Virginia Beach written, but then an email came through regarding the sale of the majority of NGC to Blackstone (an Investment Group). We’ve heard rumors about this for a week or two, but we didn’t know if

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Coins We Love: An Energetic Market

Wow, good to be back at the office this week, but it’s always a roller coaster! We’ve had coins flying in and out this week, with a large number of new pieces and a couple of small collections that are soon to be offered in our weekly auctions.

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Coins we Love: Update from the Blue Skies

At the moment I’m somewhere over New Mexico, returning from the PCGS show in Las Vegas. We still have a presence at the show through Friday, but due to responsibilities in the office I needed to return on Thursday. Overall, the show was a bit sparsely attended this time

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Coins We Love: Expanding the Hobby

The biggest news of the week in the coin business was the recent sale of what is now the most expensive coin ever sold, the 1933 $20 PCGS/CAC MS65. Sold by Sotheby’s as an individual item in a sale of just three pieces, the coin re-entered the market

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DLRC Purchases ESM Collection of Proof Half Cents and Proof Large Cents

David Lawrence Rare Coins (DLRC [https://www.davidlawrence.com/]) of Virginia Beach has purchased one of the most impressive sets of Proof Half Cents and Large Cents ever put together. 1832 PCGS Proof 65 Red-BrownIn a private transaction, Mike Printz of Harlan J. Berk, Ltd (HJBLTD) and John Brush of

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Coins We Love: Summertime Selections

I still can’t believe it’s Thursday…When we get a four day week, we certainly don’t complain, but it makes for an incredibly hectic office. Not only do we have to get two days of work done on Tuesday, we have our hands full for the rest

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Coins We Love: Happy Memorial Day

This week was full of unexpected events. On Sunday I found myself scheduling a last minute trip Utah to visit the D.L. Hansen Collection for an evening before venturing to the PCGS Las Vegas Invitational show for a few days of buying coins. It was a fascinating trip as

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Coins We Love: Building Relationships One Coin at a Time

This week’s CWL features a number of high-powered auction coins. As our 2nd Super Sunday Sale [https://www.davidlawrence.com/en-us/?auctionids=665829] ends this Sunday evening, we wanted to share a few of our exciting offerings in this event. We understand that these aren’t a fit for

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Coins We Love: As the Coin Turns

While many of you know my background, some of the newer readers of the CWL don’t exactly know my role at DLRC. Yes, I’m the President, so I get to sign off on a lot of uninteresting documents, but my background is as a coin collector and a

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Coins We Love: Going the Extra Mile

The latest development at DLRC is the ability, or comfort level, to be able to travel for coins once again. This week John took off into the blue skies to visit some dealer friends, pick up a fantastic consignment from a long-time customer, and hit a small show in Sarasota.

Coins We Love: Expect the Unexpected

Jason and I had the pleasure of taking a friend out to lunch to discuss what we do at DLRC last week and Jason made a comment that is one of the most accurate statements I’ve heard about our operation - “no day is ever what you expect or

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Coins We Love: Numismatic Matchmaking

We were looking at a normal week this week, but COVID has really re-defined “normal” for us. The new “normal” here at DLRC is being “extremely active and busy every day!” Our weekly auction really turned up the heat over the final 2 days and the active bidders turned on

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Coins We Love: The Collector Contribution

Our website is the face of our company and if you don’t attend major shows it’s probably all you will ever associate DLRC with. As a customer or casual viewer, we always want to make your browsing, bidding and buying experience as fluid and fun as possible. No

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Coins We Love: April Updates

First of all, thank you for the feedback regarding last week's message, all the comments were very much appreciated. This week has been a more normal and relatively calm at DLRC. The past several months we've been asking for coins and just in the past few

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Coins We Love: The Coin Quest Chronicles

This past week it was finally time for me to hit the road again! My last trip was in March of 2020 to attend the auction of the 1854-S $5 PCGS AU58+ and as we landed in California, the shut downs had begun. Now over a year later I was

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Coins We Love: Spring into Numismatics

First of all, thank you to everyone who tuned in to my zoom presentation last week on the Hansen Collection. That was an entertaining foray for myself and I really enjoyed the Q&A part of the discussion. We’re very fortunate to have an organization like the Newman

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Coins We Love: March Numis-Madness

This week in the DLRC office has been an adventure! The number of collections that arrived at the office and that we’ve processed through has been impressive, the auction activity over the last few weeks has been spectacular, and the outright sales have even been greater. It just goes

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Coins We Love: March Coin Madness

I mentioned last weeks CWL message how the market has been continuing to heat up and coins are selling across the board in all categories. Well, that continues to be the case. Our auction last weekend brought about some record prices and a lot of bidding activity on coins of

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Coins We Love: March Market Update

While overall the action in the wholesale coin market (dealer to dealer trading) is relatively quiet, the opposite can be said about collector-based transactions, online auctions, and retail. Although we’ve seen the coin market become far more active during the pandemic, it’s been nothing compared to the boom

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