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Coins We Love: Who is R.L. Miles Jr.?

While many of us appreciate the history of both numismatics and the individual coins themselves, there’s also a rich history of collectors and a study of past pedigrees that is important to the hobby. While collecting has evolved greatly over the years, there’s still one core tenant, an

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Coins We Love: What's In Your Collection?

During the coin show lull of March, we’ve been trying to simply catch up with things we missed in the office over the past month or so. This includes figuring a few uncertified coin collections, sorting purchases from the recent shows, and submitting some ungraded coins to the grading

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Coins We Love: The Suspected S-Mint Variety

I recently attended the American Numismatic Association National Money Show in Savannah, Georgia, and left with a fascinating story and a seemingly undiagnosed variety! I was handed a 1877-S $2.5 in PCGS MS62 for consignment. A lovely coin that we are thrilled to offer with no reserve in our

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Coins We Love: Time to Rest

The past few weeks have been a real blur. The run of recent shows wore us down quite a bit! The final event of the stretch was the Whitman Baltimore Show last week, and it was another active event that produced quite well for us. This show included a lot

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Coins We Love: Baltimore's Here Again!

The Savannah ANA show ended smoothly, with the main event being the release of Proof Silver Eagles at the Show by the US Mint. Director Hollis was on hand, signing autographs and promoting the newest products for the world’s largest coin dealer, and the coins that hit the floor

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Coins We Love: Midwinter Musings

Oh Savannah! Don’t Youback-to-back Cry for Me…oh sorry. At least I was close. I’ve been looking for my park bench in the old part of town this week to find a box of chocolates, but no luck yet. Seriously though, Savannah has proven to be an interesting

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Coins We Love: Shows Galore!

This week, Jack will be attending the show formerly known as Tinley Park, which is now in Countryside (Chicagoland Area). Hopefully, he’s getting some home cooking too, because he’s starting to waste away! Next week, you’ll find Jack, Wes, Andy, and I in Savannah, Georgia, for the

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Coins We Love: All About Berlin

About a week and a half ago, I got back from the World’s Money Fair in Berlin, Germany. This was my first coin show outside of the country… Not to mention my first time out of the country. Originally, John Brush was supposed to tag along with me, but

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Coins We Love: We've Got A NEW Mint Director!

Coinage of the United States has had a rich but brief history when compared to the rest of the world. However, it is by far the most advanced market in the world of coins. The influences that have dictated designs and run the actual physical change within the country have

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Coins We Love: Target Acquired and Bounty Awarded!

Sometimes the DLRC Office feels like an episode of “Where’s Waldo?” in real time. This week Jack is off to the World Money Fair in Berlin, JB and Wes are on their way to DC for a special event that we’ll discuss more in next week’s message,

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Coins We Love: Busy January!

My wife has kindly reminded me more than once over the last few days that I’m gone more in January than I'm in town. It could be worse, of course, but it’s been a constant reminder that we are in one of our busier seasons of

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Coins We Love: Final FUN Show Evaluation

We left off last week before the actual show opened in Orlando, and we really didn’t know what to expect when the main event started — what we experienced was unlike anything in recent years. Setup on Wednesday afternoon was quite active amongst the dealers and it was generally a

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Coins We Love: 2026 is Starting Strong!

We’ve kickstarted the year—as usual—in Orlando, Florida, home of this week's FUN Show. To say that there’s excitement in the air this year is an understatement. It seems like every day we’re seeing record prices for precious metals and the buzz around it

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Coins We Love: Happy New Year!

We hope that you’re enjoying your black-eyed peas, collard greens, and cornbread…maybe I’m showing my southern roots a bit too much, but the tv advertisement for the buffet across the border in NC is reminding me of my mother's New Year's Day dinner

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Coins We Love: Christmas Edition!

We hope that everyone is enjoying the holiday season and we wish those of you celebrating today a Merry Christmas. Our offices are closed today, but will re-open tomorrow with a limited staff through the New Year. If we can be of assistance to you, please don't hesitate

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Coins We Love: What A Show!!

Generally, when we go to shows, we try to set some realistic goals for buying and selling to give us something to work towards. Coming to the PCGS Las Vegas event, our goals weren’t too high as we weren’t sure what we’d see here. But, I can

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Coins We Love: End of Year Consignment Special!

Upcoming Show: Next week, you’ll find Jack, Wes, and myself (John B) at the PCGS show in Las Vegas. If you’re planning on attending and want to see a coin from our website in-hand, please let us know before Monday! We’d be happy to pack it alongside

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Coins We Love: Welcome to December!

I was reading something the other day, and it struck me as funny. As the calendar rolls around to December, the meaning of the word is "the 10th month”! So, we’re entering the 12th month of the year using a term that means the 10th month. This sounds

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Coins We're Thankful For: Happy Thanksgiving Y'all!

Welcome to our annual Coins We’re Thankful For email. By the time you’re reading this, our office is closed, and we’re enjoying some time with one of the two “F’s”: family or football. In my case, hopefully both. Thanksgiving has long been my favorite holiday because

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Coins We Love: Fall Q&A Session

We often get asked a ton of questions throughout the year and occasionally we’ll try to stop and answer them along the way. So, this week’s CWL is a Q&A from questions gathered throughout the year! Q: Why don’t you attend shows on Saturday? A:

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Coins We Love: Baltimore... Again!

I once had a dealer tell me that they had tallied up how much time they had spent in Long Beach and Baltimore as a result of coin shows in those locales, and the tally of years was quite shocking. That being said, there are worse places to be, and

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Coins We Love: On to Baltimore

We’ve made it to our home away from home, Baltimore, Maryland for the annual Fall/Winter Whitman Expo. The trip up here was uneventful for once, but we had a late start due to the avalanche of coins that have fallen our way this week. This was a wonderful

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Coins We Love: When a Coin Show Isn’t a Coin Show

Sometimes we get a bit overly aggressive in scheduling travel to coin shows throughout the country. It happens every year (just ask my wife!), and we end up canceling one or two that we just can’t make it to, or we do back-to-back weeks with shows, only to return

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Coins We Love: On The Road Again

The precious metals market continues to fly all over the place. We thought that the week would start off with some possible calmness...until we looked at the prices on Sunday evening and realized that the week would likely be another roller coaster. Well, here we go again. I try

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Coins We Love: Numismatic Travel Journal

While everyone in the world of coins is writing about the meteoric price gains of gold and silver, we’re happy to give you a break from the metallic roller coaster-like news and bring you an alternative travel journal for numismatic service this week! Last week, I spent a few