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Coins We Love: Numismatic Field Trips Pt. 2

Honestly, I didn’t know what I was getting into when I ran for the ANA Board. I knew that I wanted to help make a difference in the largest coin-collecting organization in the world, but I didn’t really know what that would entail. After the election, we were

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Coins We Love: Numismatic Field Trips Pt. 1

I’m writing this on a flight from Colorado Springs to Denver, Colorado. I’ve never been on such a large jet with so few people. And, for less than 15 minutes! But it’s fitting as I’m in the middle of a series of trips that I’ve

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Coins We Love: What's Happening at DLRC?

Our good news for the week is that our office renovation is nearly complete! We’ve been setting up makeshift offices and rotating locations for the past month while the water-damaged carpet is replaced and the walls are painted. There is light at the end of the tunnel, and by

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Coins We Love: The Smithsonian Collection

As a young child, I was lucky enough to have two coin clubs in Greenville, SC, that were just 30 minutes down the road. My calendar was built around coin shows within a 2-4 hour radius and the major coin events like the ANA Summer Seminar, with school coming in

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Coins We Love: The CACG Hype!

The biggest story in the numismatic world continues to be the opening of CAC Grading. Talking with the CACG CFO, Brian Kint, over the past 6 months, I have gotten a real sense of the magnitude of details and coordination it has taken to bring this grading service to life.

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Coins We Love: When Tragedy Strikes

Some of you were affected by slight delays in our shipping over the past two weeks, and we truly appreciate your patience. We didn’t elaborate on “why” at the time, but as Jason mentions below it’s been a wild few weeks. We’re glad to finally be back

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Coins We Love: D.L. Hansen Collection Update

As promised two weeks ago, I wanted to share a brief update on the Hansen Collection from our recent trip to the Pittsburgh ANA. With the final auction session from the Bass Collection, there was one coin that was needed and a few others that we wanted if they were

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Coins We Love: Dealer Differences

As Robert Burns wrote in 1785, “The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry…” I was intending to do a mini Hansen Collection update this week, but in honor of college football starting this weekend, I’m going to have to punt that until next Thursday. The

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Coins We Love: Warning - ANA Recap!

The ANA’s World’s Fair of Money has concluded and we made it home! Warning: This is very long. So, if you don’t want to read these ramblings from the show, scroll down quickly to see the Highlights of this week's Coins We Love. Overall, the

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Coins We Love: Live From The Burgh!

Pittsburgh has been a rather polarizing city for many of the attendees at the show. However, I have to come out on top and say that we’ve really enjoyed our stay here. While it was quite difficult to get here with limited flight options, we all made it here

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Coins We Love: See You at the David Lawrence Convention Center!

Next Week: See DLRC Live at the David Lawrence Convention Center! This week is a quick turnaround for me! After a week of teaching young numismatists at Witter Coin U, I returned back to the office for a week to get everything ready for the big one, the 2023 ANA

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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