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Coins We Love: What's Hot & What's Not!

So, a few of you have asked if we’re attending the Long Beach Show next week. The answer is a rather complicated one as it’s been “No. No. No. Maybe? YES, but not really.” So, do we have a table? Yes, we do. But, we won’t be

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Coins We Love: Numismatic Miscellanea!

It certainly doesn’t feel like February in Virginia Beach. It’s been around 60 degrees for the last week with some warm rain showers sprinkled in. Thankfully we’ve avoided the white, puffy stuff so far this winter, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we receive a blizzard

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Coins We Love: Flying into February

All I can say is “wow.” The number of responses and the feedback received from last week’s letter were amazing. Thank you for all of the messages, support, and encouragement...

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Coins We Love: January 23

We're finally feeling a bit more caught up here in the DLRC Headquarters, and things have started moving smoothly once again now that the FUN Show rush is over. We're preparing for our next outing at the end of February to the Atlanta Mid-Winter ANA show.

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Coins We Love 2019: Moving On to 2020!

In the past we’ve done a small year in review at DLRC, but sometimes it’s difficult to look back over the past 12 months.This year we see reviews of a past decade. With so much going on, it’s hard to remember 2019, let alone 2010-19. That

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Coins We Love: A DLRC Thank You

As we enter the hectic Holiday Season, we would like to take time to say “Thank You” to all our CWL readers and customers everywhere. We appreciate not only your continued business, but your insightful feedback on how we can improve all aspects of DLRC. We look forward to offering

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Coins We Love: Brevity, Coins & Elves

The holiday season is upon us and the elves have decorated our office this week. While we spend more time here than we do with our families during the weekdays, we try to make it an enjoyable place to work. Of course, there’s a delicate balance that you must

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Coins We Love: It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Numismatics

While we were closed for a few days last week due to the Thanksgiving holiday, we offered a few different sales events on our website as well as a trio of our weekly auctions. Though the general opinion in the market has been that things slow down in the last

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Coins We Love: Turkey Day Edition

On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, we always want to send out a note of thanks to our customers. Without you, we wouldn't be able to play with these historic objects that we so passionately love and enjoy. So, before we get into the turkey and football tomorrow, we

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Coins We Love: Show Reflections

We’re fresh off the road from our recent trip to the Whitman Baltimore Coin Expo, and we’ve been busy getting everything back in order this week. It’s always easier to analyze a show in hindsight than when you’re in the throes of commerce and conversations but

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Coins We Love: Dateline Baltimore

Dateline Baltimore. Team DLRC has been gradually descending on the numismatic capitol of the East Coast, Baltimore, Maryland this week. Having arrived on Tuesday, we’ve had two full days of numismatic activity and have been rather thrilled with the resulting business that’s occurred. On day one we reviewed

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Coins We Love: Where Coins and Customers Come First

What a week! We’ve launched our first two auctions in the upcoming series of Selections from the Hansen Collection as well as some really nice, new pieces from our travels, packages, and relationships that we’ve cultivated over the past 40 years. I can honestly say that this is

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Coins We Love: The Hansen Update

A few weeks ago, Julia, Mike and I had the pleasure of spending a week in Salt Lake City, working with the Hansen Collection. One of our main goals and tasks with the collection as it has grown into thousands of coins, was to organize the collection further and to

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Coins We Love: Fall Sports & Coin Books

Fall is definitely upon us, and our travel and show schedule has slowed considerably. It’s always great to be a coin collector, but the Fall is specifically a great time to be a sports fan. Here in Virginia, we're happy to see our Washington Nationals doing well

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Coins We Love: A Return to Normalcy

This week was a return to normalcy for us at DLRC. Last week, three of us were holed up in Utah working through the D.L. Hansen Collection as we are working to get the coins housed individually with a new custom label by PCGS in anticipation of exhibiting or

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Coins We Love - October 11

Here in Virginia, we are just starting to see and feel the first signs of Fall. Besides breaking out some warmer clothes, this week's projects included finalizing many important coin deals, scanning hundreds of new inventory in to our system and meeting a few important marketing deadlines. We

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Coins We Love September 26

While it’s our intention to send these emails out on Thursdays, it seems that things have simply become so busy and hectic that we’re just glad to be able to get this out before the weekend! This week’s delay comes from our active travel schedule as I’

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Coins We Love: Mike J's Collection Closing

First of all, thank you for the comments and concerns from our recent scare from Hurricane Dorian. While we didn’t escape completely unscathed, we were thankful that it just brushed our coast and left us without power for a day. We were back up and going by Friday night,

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Coins We Love: Hurricane Dorian Watch

Due to Hurricane Dorian’s Arrival, DLRC will be operating at reduced capacity today. As many of you might have noticed, Hurricane Dorian is currently off our coast and making its way up to our coastal city. As a result, we are operating at a reduced capacity and will not

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Coins We Love: Back in the Saddle

The mountains of coins and paperwork have gradually declined this week as we’ve had some time to play catch-up in the office. We’re really quite thrilled to see the three day weekend ahead so we can get a little rest and enjoy an extra day with our families.

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Coins We Love August 23

The past two weeks have been a whirlwind, and we’re finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. We survived the ANA, the completely unexpected media attention, and the general nature of catching up from being out of the office for a week (while being completely exhausted)

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Coins We Love: Live at the ANA!

Update from the ANA Show We’ve had a fantastic show, but we’re exhausted! We’ll have coverage from the show next week, but for now we’ll share a few highlights: Another 1894-S Dime Finds Its Way Home: David Lawrence Rare Coins and D.L. Hansen Acquire Famous

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Coins We Love: Ready to Hit the Road Edition

The wait is almost over for the Coin Show Warriors who will be attending the Granddaddy of them all in Rosemont, Illinois this week (I still can’t call Rosemont “Chicago”). We’ll be set-up at the PNG Day event on Monday morning, so if you’re in the area,

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Coins We Love: The ANA Preparation Edition

So, this week’s CWL comes to you from a far calmer office in Virginia Beach where we’re slowly packing up coins, marketing materials, and display items for the upcoming week-long ANA event in Rosemont, Illinois. I’ve never been a marathon runner, but I understand that the training

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Coins We Love: Key Dates and Shipwrecks Ahoy!

If there’s a downtime in the numismatic calendar, it happens during the month of July. With no major shows to attend, all the focus turns to preparing for the granddaddy of them all, the ANA World’s Fair of Money. As I review my calendar for this year’s