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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

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Coins We Love: 😎Status Update😎

The question we get asked most by dealers and collectors is “How’s the coin market looking?” It may be surprising that dealers ask this question, but most specialists only cater to what they know. Most of the folks we deal with focus on the wholesale coin market, never looking

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Coins We Love: ✨The Tissue Test✨

I left the office yesterday with a deep sigh of relief as I finally felt that the last 4-5 weeks of deadlines have come to an end. It doesn’t mean there won't be more deadlines, but it does mean that we will have a few days to

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Coins We Love: 💸The FUN, the Bad, and the Ugly💸

The best way to really analyze a show is in hindsight. When you’re in the middle of the action you have to focus on what's happening at the moment. But, after some reflection, it’s easier to see the FUN, the bad, and the ugly. The FUN:

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Coins We Love: 🌴FUN Times🌴

Unfortunately, we’re coming in a day late this week with our Coins We Love, but we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming next week. This week has a large number of the folks from our office at the FUN Show in Orlando. While operations are still moving

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Coins We Love: 🎆New Years Coin Resolutions🎆

As we approach the close of 2022, we start to look forward to the upcoming new year. One way that people typically gear up for a new year to begin is by making resolutions. These are ideas and goals that we set for ourselves with the hope of improving ourselves.

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Coins We Love: 🌲Happy Holidays🌲

The last two weeks were probably the most stressful that we have during the calendar year at DLRC. We picked the two collections mentioned previously, and had several sizable deals dropped off at our office, as well as the usual packages that we receive on a regular basis. This happened

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Coins We Love: 💸The Deals Keep Coming💸

The response to last week’s message was surprising, yet refreshing. Collecting coins is something we’re passionate about and also something we get to enjoy on a daily basis. The stories of collectors and how we can relate to each other are always fun to hear. The number of

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Coins We Love: 🚩Coin Traffic Controllers🚩

This week DLRC has felt as much like a logistics company as it has a rare coin company. You wouldn’t think that logistics play a huge part in this industry, but it’s actually a very key piece of the puzzle. Just this week we had to arrange getting

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Coins We Love: 😊Giving Back😊

It’s December 1st and the holiday buzz is officially in the air (although some of us have had our Christmas trees up for weeks already). Amidst all the hustle and bustle of the season, it’s important to keep the gratitude celebrated on Thanksgiving going and spread some cheer

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Coins We're Thankful For: 🍗Turkey Day🍗

Thanksgiving is a time for families to get together and enjoy home-cooked meals, football, and family traditions. It’s also a time to recognize our blessings and give thanks for all that we have. At DLRC, we are thankful for our wonderful staff that works hard every day to make

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Coins We Love: ✨Thanksgiving Collections✨

Maybe the fourth time is the charm. This is the 4th message that I’ve written so far with the intention of sending…The reason for all of the edits is due to a press release that hit my inbox at 5 pm on Wednesday. You can see it here.

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Coins We Love: 😳Christmas Shopping?!😳

It’s hard to believe we’re approaching the middle of November. In fact, I’ve had several phone calls this week to set up meetings and events for the upcoming FUN show in January. I’m truly not ready for that, but the calendar won’t wait. And, it&