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Coins We Love: Welcome to Oklahoma City!

Getting to OKC wasn’t for the faint of heart. But, we overcame the 3.5-hour layover in Atlanta and finally find our way here to be welcomed by….an empty airport. Interestingly, that seems to be the theme for the city. It’s just empty. The city is

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Coins We Love: Jack's Midwest Road Trip

I’m sure many of you have heard about me wandering around the eastern half of the US and I figured it was time to share what I was up to. After just under 3,000 miles, almost two weeks, and 15 states, I’m finally back home! It was

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Coins We Love: WCU is a Wrap!

I shared a snapshot of last week with the WCU event, but the final events are always the highlights. After a week of numismatic education and camaraderie, the week ends with a special guest speaker (Kevin Lipton of KLRC this year), a banquet, and a small private coin show for

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Coins We Love: It's Been A Busy Summer!

The summer season of numismatics always hits a slowdown in June and July in preparation for the ANA World’s Fair in August. However, the summer hiatus seems to have ended a week early this year. With Jack continuing to wander around the eastern US through New York, Ohio, Illinois,

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Coins We Love: Cheers to 19 Years!

I was listening to a podcast about small businesses on my way to work today, and it reminded me that I’ve now been at DLRC for 19 years. It’s honestly hard to believe it has been that long. As the adage goes, “time flies when you’re having

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Coins We Love: Don't Miss Out On Great Coins!

One of the things that I enjoy most about working at DLRC is that it’s not just my job. It’s truly my passion and what I enjoy doing as a hobby on my own. I often find myself going to coin events trying to be “undercover”, but that

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Coins We Love: Live from FUN

This week finds us in sunny (and hot!) Orlando, Florida, at the FUN show. It’s been an incredibly active first few days, and we’ve found a number of new coins in our first two days here, so it’s been a real positive (minus the humidity!). We’re

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Coins We Love: Educated Customers are the Best Customers

What’s the best value in numismatic education? The ANA Summer Seminar. Every year, I put a plug for the ANA Summer Seminar in the CWL, and this year is no different! Wes and I returned from Colorado Springs this past Sunday, while Jack is taking a class in the

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Coins We Love: June Travel!

Last week a few members of the DLRC team descended upon Baltimore for the Whitman Summer Expo. It was an active event for the team overall, especially for a summer show. The weather was even pleasant, so braving the streets of downtown wasn't as dreadful as the hot

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Coins We Love: Market Update

So How is the Coin Market? The most common question we hear from collectors (or from dinner party guests, it seems!) is “how’s the coin market?” It’s kind of funny, because I wish there was a succinct answer that we could give everyone, but there’s so much

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Currency We Love: Expanded Currency Offerings @ DLRC!

One of the long-term projects and improvements to our website that we had on our list of goals was to improve our currency listings so we could offer more in this category of numismatics. After several months of working on this, we kicked off the website improvements and have

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Coins We Love: The Prodigal Package!

We’re generally not in the habit of telling stories about shipping, but every once in a while we have to share the escapades of some of our packages. As most of you know, we do our absolute best to get packages out in an expeditious manner. Sometimes it'

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Coins We Love: Diving In!

Personal Message from John Brush: The ballots for the ANA Board of Governors have started arriving this week! Making a difference with the ANA and the hobby of numismatics is far more involved than I initially estimated, so I'd appreciate your support in my re-election effort for

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Coins We Love: Special Memorial Day Issue!

As Memorial Day weekend is upon us, like many others, I am traveling to connect with friends and family, honoring the holiday while enjoying some of the traditional festivities. We wanted to give our readers an extra special CWL issue focusing on Liberty, in more ways than just one! We

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Coins We Love: It's All About Wes!

It’s funny, I hear more comments on the CWL about Wes’s trips these days than I do my own! While my feelings have been hurt by that, I keep reminding Wes that he’s MY free companion on Southwest, not the primary passenger. Sometimes that gives him a

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Coins We Love: Fresh Deals and Hansen Coins!

We’ve seen the dust settle a little bit in the post-tax-season world and what is typically considered a slower summer numismatic season, is in front of us. It’s not so much that way anymore as the internet has changed the collecting world to be a much

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Coins We Love: ANA Board - For Better or For Worse

This week, we’ll offer a slightly off-topic personal plea from myself, John Brush for the hope for the greater good of numismatics. Two years ago, I had many people tell me that I was insane to run for the American Numismatic Association (ANA) Board. As someone who dislikes

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Coins We Love: May the Fourth Be With You!

Central States is a wrap and we’ve moved on into May! Honestly, the CSNS show was “fine”. That’s probably the best word to use for the annual Schaumburg event. It has aspirations of being the 3rd most important coin show of the year as it was a decade

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Coins We Love: AI Coin Dealer?!

This week we're coming to you in two parts for the CWL with our staff at the Central States Show giving a little feedback on the ongoings so far, along with our office team working to keep things moving along accordingly. Unfortunately, the flu kept me from attending

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Coins We Love: We've Got Commems!

Today we are highlighting a perennially popular and highly collectible series of US Numismatics: Classic Silver Commemoratives! The variety, history, and beauty of these pieces have captivated collectors for decades and make for a jam-packed collection. Why Collect Classic Commems? If you have an appreciation for beautifully designed coins

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Coins We Love: The Tale of Two Tails

This week, we've had a lot going on with bullion spikes and incoming collections, so it's hard to sit down and write a recap. However, Jack was digging deeper on a coin for a social media post, and we thought that it was so interesting that

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Coins We Love: Back in Baltimore

The wholesale coin market is incredibly active these days. The FUN Show kicked off the year with a lot of activity which stayed steady through the Atlanta ANA Show. Now, we find ourselves back in Baltimore and the first 2 days have proven quite successful. The pre-show trading rooms

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Coins We Love: Upcoming Collections @ DLRC!

Collectors often ask us “What are your busiest months?” The answer is undoubtedly the first quarter of every year. We typically have three or four major shows to attend and tons of collector activity, both buying and selling. We are always super busy processing the increased amount of deals coming

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Coins We Love: Take a Tour of the DLRC Office!

It’s been a nice week at home for us here at DLRC, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been busy. We bought a really nice retail-able group of coins from one of our favorite vendors to close out last week, so we have 350 coins that

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Collectors We Love: Collector and Consignor of the Year!

Each year we process thousands of orders and auction invoices from our customer base of new and old customers. Many of these collectors have done business with us for over 10-30 years. While we don’t get the opportunity to thank every one of them, we occasionally work with