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Coins We Love: 20 Years of Auctions

2023 marks the 20th year that we have been running weekly online auctions. Our Sunday Internet Auctions have grown in popularity with all sizes of collectors and dealers over the years mainly due to these four important factors. This week we started our 1,260th Sunday Auction. 1. Our auctions

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Coins We Love: 😎Status Update😎

The question we get asked most by dealers and collectors is “How’s the coin market looking?” It may be surprising that dealers ask this question, but most specialists only cater to what they know. Most of the folks we deal with focus on the wholesale coin market, never looking

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Coins We Love: ✨The Tissue Test✨

I left the office yesterday with a deep sigh of relief as I finally felt that the last 4-5 weeks of deadlines have come to an end. It doesn’t mean there won't be more deadlines, but it does mean that we will have a few days

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Coins We Love: 💸The FUN, the Bad, and the Ugly💸

The best way to really analyze a show is in hindsight. When you’re in the middle of the action you have to focus on what's happening at the moment. But, after some reflection, it’s easier to see the FUN, the bad, and the ugly. The FUN:

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Coins We Love: 🌴FUN Times🌴

Unfortunately, we’re coming in a day late this week with our Coins We Love, but we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming next week. This week has a large number of the folks from our office at the FUN Show in Orlando. While operations are still moving

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Coins We Love: 🎆New Years Coin Resolutions🎆

As we approach the close of 2022, we start to look forward to the upcoming new year. One way that people typically gear up for a new year to begin is by making resolutions. These are ideas and goals that we set for ourselves with the hope of improving ourselves.

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Coins We Love: 🌲Happy Holidays🌲

The last two weeks were probably the most stressful that we have during the calendar year at DLRC. We picked the two collections mentioned previously, and had several sizable deals dropped off at our office, as well as the usual packages that we receive on a regular basis. This happened

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Coins We Love: 💸The Deals Keep Coming💸

The response to last week’s message was surprising, yet refreshing. Collecting coins is something we’re passionate about and also something we get to enjoy on a daily basis. The stories of collectors and how we can relate to each other are always fun to hear. The number of

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Coins We Love: 🚩Coin Traffic Controllers🚩

This week DLRC has felt as much like a logistics company as it has a rare coin company. You wouldn’t think that logistics play a huge part in this industry, but it’s actually a very key piece of the puzzle. Just this week we had to arrange getting

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Coins We Love: 😊Giving Back😊

It’s December 1st and the holiday buzz is officially in the air (although some of us have had our Christmas trees up for weeks already). Amidst all the hustle and bustle of the season, it’s important to keep the gratitude celebrated on Thanksgiving going and spread some cheer

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Coins We're Thankful For: 🍗Turkey Day🍗

Thanksgiving is a time for families to get together and enjoy home-cooked meals, football, and family traditions. It’s also a time to recognize our blessings and give thanks for all that we have. At DLRC, we are thankful for our wonderful staff that works hard every day to

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Coins We Love: ✨Thanksgiving Collections✨

Maybe the fourth time is the charm. This is the 4th message that I’ve written so far with the intention of sending…The reason for all of the edits is due to a press release that hit my inbox at 5 pm on Wednesday. You can see it here.

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Coins We Love: 😳Christmas Shopping?!😳

It’s hard to believe we’re approaching the middle of November. In fact, I’ve had several phone calls this week to set up meetings and events for the upcoming FUN show in January. I’m truly not ready for that, but the calendar won’t wait. And, it&

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Coins We Love: ✌Show Summary✌

As expected, last week was somewhat of a blur. The Baltimore show is kind of “old hat” for us and it went well. We had a team that attended the event from Tuesday-Friday. The early buying and wholesale activity on Wednesday was extremely active with plenty of opportunities to

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Coins We Love: 😵Busy Week😵

This week has been a little bit crazy as we traveled to Baltimore and are now heading to Greenville, South Carolina. This is the first time we’ve done any of the smaller shows in quite a while but we’re excited to be able to return back to what

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Coins We Love: 🔑Patience is Key🔑

They say that patience is a virtue. As a coin collector, it is required, but many of us struggle with it. Searching for the perfect coin (that may or may not exist), looking for the right “value”, or waiting for a coin to come back from grading or CAC - all

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Coins We Love: 🙀The CAC is Out of the Bag🙀

The worst-kept secret in the coin business was announced today. Certified Acceptance Corp (CAC) is officially morphing into a real, live grading company. You can read today’s Coin World interview with John Albanese here [https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/cac-grading-service-planned-for-start-in-

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Coins We Love: 🐠🎸Bass Collection Update🐠🎸

For those of you who follow the larger coin market, you know that the Harry Bass Jr. Core Collection, which was housed at the ANA Museum for the past 20+ years, is now on the auction market and the first of four installments hit the block last week. These coins

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Coins Dell Loy Loves: 👊Dell Loy's Takeover👊

This week we have changed the title of our weekly email slightly to “Coins Dell Loy Loves”. As most of you are aware, Dell Loy Hansen (collector extraordinaire) is a partner at DLRC. Over the past 3 years, this strategic relationship has helped our company grow in size and scope

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Coins We Love: ⏫Coinflation Hesitation ⏫

Coinflation - I thought I had invented a word today. My concept of the word was a combination of the post-pandemic increasing prices and the often-discussed concept of gradeflation. Both of these terms affect coins and their value. I googled it and went down a rabbit trail of reading.

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Coins We Love: 💸The Ebb and Flow of the Coin Show💸

I was speaking to a dealer friend of mine yesterday for the first time since the ANA show in August. His business is quite different than ours as he runs a successful shop and operation on the West Coast. However, we like to bounce ideas off of each other as

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Coins We Love: 👀The Collector Mindset👀

Like many of you, I have been a collector of one thing or another for nearly all my life. For me, it was baseball cards, comic books, arrowheads, various old padlocks, pocket watches, and knives that my grandfather continuously gifted to me. And of course, coins! Have you ever considered

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Coins We Love: 🌋Inventory Eruption!🌋

For the past year, we have talked about how hot the coin market is and how prices have steadily risen across the board in almost all series. As prices increased we found it harder and harder to find/buy coins, particularly from other dealers. The market may not have peaked

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Coins We Love: 😅We Survived the ANA😅

We survived the 2022 World’s Fair of Money. Instead of doing a complete write-up this week, I wanted to share a few bullet points of interest. Funniest Part of the Show: The shoe shine guy had his booth set up about 20 feet from our table. After three

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Coins We Love: 👋Live from the ANA👋

This week we are at the ANA World’s Fair of Money in Rosemont, IL. We arrived on Sunday for the pre-show trading room and have literally been running non-stop since. As of today (Thursday morning), there have been breakfast appointments, dinner events, and a full day of