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Coins We Love: JC's CAC Grading Experience

Having been in numismatics nearly all my life as a collector, dealer, and now full-time buyer and numismatist at DLRC, one thing I have never gotten to do is try my hand as a coin grader. That all changed last week when John Albanese and company invited me to guest

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Coins We Love: Price, Value, Quality, and Relationships

I’m sure many of you have heard the saying “Price, quality, value, pick two”. Perhaps that is true sometimes, but in a service industry, it honestly should not be. Selling unnecessary items may be more of an emotional purchase or a tangible investment. A couple of conference calls and

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Coins We Love: Late Night Ramblings

Sometimes the time gets away from you when you’re focusing on tasks that must be finished. Last night I closed up shop a little late because we were working on consignment payments and squaring things up from the recent show. The details of running a business are not always

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Coins We Love: Straight from Central States

Coming in live from the Central States Numismatic Society Show in lovely suburban Schaumburg, Illinois! Admittedly, I’ve never been a fan of coming to Schaumburg. The hotel and convention are amazing, many dealers typically show up, but collector attendance is typically poor. This year, however, the public attendance has

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Coins We Love: ANA National Coin Week

This week, April 21st-27th, we celebrate National Coin Week. A week-long tradition established by the American Numismatic Association with the goal of “attracting the general public to our hobby and consequently increasing our membership.” This year is especially important as it marks the 100-year anniversary of the first observance of

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Coins We Love: Market Report

Just about every week here at DLRC, we huddle up and discuss, “What is the current state of the market and where should our focus lie?” During the boom of the Covid years the answer was consistently “The market is completely insane, so hurry up and find more coins to

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Coins We Love: We've Got Layaway!

I’ve spoken with quite a few of you this month who were dreading this week due to the typical April 15th tax date. I get it. It’s hard to buy coins when you have possible payments or unknown returns coming your way. This is the first time that

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Coins We Love: From NASCAR to Napoleon

The coins keep rolling along here at DLRC. With the explosive bidding action in the most recent Red Carpet Rarities auction, we’re thrilled to have the next group ending this evening. This time the featured lots aren’t all super expensive, high-end gold issues. There’s a variety of

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Coins We Love: Baltimore was Just "Fine"

This week is Spring Break for my kids, so we are enjoying a few days at the beach. As a result, I’m a little bit less involved with the ongoings at the office, but it’s a welcome respite from the last six months of travel. The naps, waves,

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Coins We Love: Live From Charm City!

Unfortunately, a last-minute family issue prevented me from attending the ANA Midwinter in Colorado Springs last week, but Andy and John Call held down the fort and made us proud in the middle of a blizzard. This week, I am part of the team going to Baltimore and we’re

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Coins We Love: DLRC can Text!

This week we have our team at the snowy ANA Mid-Winter Show in Colorado. As they return home, the next group tags in heading to the Whitman Baltimore show. So, if you see coins on our website that you want us to bring along, please email us at coins@davidlawrence.

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Coins We Love: Roll That Beautiful Coin Footage!

I can honestly say that I don’t think that we’ve ever had so many coins come our way here at DLRC. Maybe we have had more in quantity at some point, but as far as quality goes, this is a unique time. As some of you may have

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Coins We Love: Happy Leap Day!

Happy Leap Day! It feels like years since I’ve been able to say that. Yes, that’s today's bad dad joke. I think it’s just the exhaustion of traveling this week! Most of us have made it home from our adventures, except for the team at

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Coins We Love: Auction Closes TONIGHT!

There is a growing crescendo of activity here at DLRC, working its way through the office and into the numismatic world. With the onset of our new auction series, the Red Carpet Rarities, we have seen new bidders and new consignors clamoring for a piece of the pie. The deals

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Coins We Love: Life on the Road

Life on the road continued this week with a jaunt to Salt Lake City, Utah. I had the privilege of sorting multiple sets of coins and finalizing the primary sets in the D.L. Hansen Collection. We’ve sold quite a few triplicate issues in the past and many upgrades

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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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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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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