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Coins We Love: Witter U Doing?

As mentioned last week, we have a few folks on vacation this week and I’m busy teaching young people at Witter Coin University. As in the past, it’s been a wonderful event and a great opportunity to share our love of coins with the next generation. We have

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Coins We Love: Events Galore!

This week’s CWL comes to you from a recovering FUN Show team. Why are we recovering? Let’s just say that airlines don’t make traveling as easy as it used to be. Sometimes the best laid-out plans don’t often work out. But we made it home eventually

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Coins We Love: It's a FUN (Show) Time!

This week finds Julia, John Call, and I visiting sunny Florida for the Summer FUN show. Unlike the past several years, the weather has cooperated and we made it down with only a few delays. The action has certainly been strong with the number of dealers attending that are looking

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Coins We Love: What's New at DLRC?

As many of you know, we closed our office on Monday and Tuesday to allow our folks to get a little breath of fresh air this summer. It’s been an incredibly busy season at DLRC and the four-day weekend was a refreshing time for all of us. The invigorating

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Coins We Love: Has it Already Been 20 Years?!

DLRC will be closed Monday, July 3rd and Tuesday, July 4th so that our employees can be with their families. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding. Happy 4th of July! In October 2003 I started traveling to coin shows with my past employer. One of my first

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Coins We Love: The Watch List is Here!

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve been able to chime in as the CWL author, but after the end-of-school-year vacation and a brief trip for a coin deal, it’s back to the old coin press! As many of you have seen, we’ve continued to make

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Coins We Love: DLRC Happenings

Summer is finally in full swing here in Virginia Beach and DLRC is staying busy! JC, Julia, and Jason returned from the Whitman Baltimore Expo with several hundred new coins that will be hitting our weekly auctions over the next few weeks. And, we were pleased to pick up several

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Coins We Love: Show Schedule

This week finds the DLRC crew (Jason, Julia, and JC) at the Whitman Summer Expo in Baltimore! Typically a slower show than their spring and winter shows, we’ve been pleasantly surprised with what we’ve been able to accomplish so far. While this show is seeing the typical summertime

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Coins We Love: A Perfect Match

What we do can be described as making “coin marriages” between collectors and their coins. It is not always easy to find the right coin, but it’s our goal to find the piece that fits our customer's needs and wants. It’s not about nickel and diming

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Coins We Love: Coin Show Adventures

Last week John C. and Amandeep were in Pittsburgh for a show and this week I found myself making a quick trip to the PCGS Members Only Show in New Orleans. As most of you know, it’s necessary for us to travel frequently to acquire inventory or pick up

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Coins We Love: Brand NEW DLRC Website!

After months of work, we’re finally thrilled to share with you the new and improved DLRC website. For those of you who checked it out on launch day yesterday, we very much appreciate the kind words that were shared! If you are a returning customer trying to log in,

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Coins We Love: Happy Star Wars Day!

Yes. It’s May the Fourth! This may be the most popular “holiday” that doesn’t exist in this galaxy. We had to throw a few Star Wars highlights at the bottom of the email. So, “May the Fourth be with You…” for the rest of the day. PLEASE READ:

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Coins We Love: How Fresh is Fresh?

This week finds us at the Central States Show in Schaumburg (don’t call it Chicago), Illinois. While we’ve already been here a few days, our staff has been so active at the show and in the office, so we’ve decided to hold off on a show report

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Coins We Love: See You at the Show!

The price of gold has continued to teeter around $2,000 with a few drops below over the last week. While it has certainly created a lot of excitement for those dealing in bullion products, I would say that it hasn’t had a significant impact on rare coins. The

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Coins We Love: What's Up with Gold?!

We often get an uptick in activity when gold makes a run, especially when it nears record highs. This past month, gold has broken and held a $2,000+ price for 6 straight days, currently at $2,017 at this time of this note. In the past, this level has

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Coins We Love: Upcoming Collections

This week we have the privilege to offer two really neat collections in Sunday’s auction. While neither is monstrous in value, they were both painstakingly put together by true collectors and we are proud to partner with the sale of these sets. The Bayou Buffalo Collection is a set

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Coins We Love: Vote for John Brush!

Like many of you, we continue to watch the price of gold jump, relax, and fluctuate this week. With the price over $2,000 last week, there was a lot of excitement on the bullion market, which created some demand in the rare coin market as well. While it seems

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Coins We Love: Workin' on the Website

Every week, the CWL message seems to have a theme. However, I admittedly struggled to figure out what was really happening at our office this week. For the past month, I’ve been busy with website development and making adjustments before our final launch. As a result, there wasn’t

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Coins We Love: Back in Baltimore

The team is at the Baltimore show this week and things seem to be going pretty well. Unfortunately, it seems that a number of the larger dealers decided to skip out on this event due to the scheduling right behind the National Money Show. That, and the fact that several

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Coins We Love: On The Road Again

We reported on the Phoenix show last week, but didn't mention that Friday turned out even better than we expected! We had a lot of visitors that came by to look at our inventory and chat with us, many being customers of ours. We picked up a collection

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Coins We Love: National Money Show Report

Our apologies to everyone who asked about our weekly update not coming on Thursday. To be honest, I didn’t even realize it was Thursday until late in the day, so we missed our deadline. Hopefully, we can all close out the week on a good note though! This week

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Coins We Love: The Dog Bought a Coin?!

I’ll lead with the fact that we’re preparing for the Phoenix ANA National Money Show. We’ll be in attendance Wednesday, March 1st - Saturday, March 4th, so if you’re in the area and want to stop by, we’d love to see you at tables 413-415.

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Coins We Love: Shipping Solutions

Most of you know that we don’t have a public storefront. I believe this harkens back to our roots as a mail-order business that was later focused on the internet as the place of future growth of the hobby. For existing customers and those that reach out to us,

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Coins We Love: Busy Season

It feels as if we’re in the busy season right now at DLRC. There are lots of moving parts, lots of traveling, and generally a nice amount of “action.” In all honesty, this is the fun time of year as there’s always something new popping up on a

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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