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Coins We Love: Happy Memorial Day

This week was full of unexpected events. On Sunday I found myself scheduling a last minute trip Utah to visit the D.L. Hansen Collection for an evening before venturing to the PCGS Las Vegas Invitational show for a few days of buying coins. It was a fascinating trip as

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Coins We Love: Building Relationships One Coin at a Time

This week’s CWL features a number of high-powered auction coins. As our 2nd Super Sunday Sale [https://www.davidlawrence.com/en-us/?auctionids=665829] ends this Sunday evening, we wanted to share a few of our exciting offerings in this event. We understand that these aren’t a fit for

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Coins We Love: As the Coin Turns

While many of you know my background, some of the newer readers of the CWL don’t exactly know my role at DLRC. Yes, I’m the President, so I get to sign off on a lot of uninteresting documents, but my background is as a coin collector and a

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Coins We Love: Going the Extra Mile

The latest development at DLRC is the ability, or comfort level, to be able to travel for coins once again. This week John took off into the blue skies to visit some dealer friends, pick up a fantastic consignment from a long-time customer, and hit a small show in Sarasota.

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Coins We Love: Numismatic Matchmaking

We were looking at a normal week this week, but COVID has really re-defined “normal” for us. The new “normal” here at DLRC is being “extremely active and busy every day!” Our weekly auction really turned up the heat over the final 2 days and the active bidders turned on

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Coins We Love: The Collector Contribution

Our website is the face of our company and if you don’t attend major shows it’s probably all you will ever associate DLRC with. As a customer or casual viewer, we always want to make your browsing, bidding and buying experience as fluid and fun as possible. No

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Coins We Love: April Updates

First of all, thank you for the feedback regarding last week's message, all the comments were very much appreciated. This week has been a more normal and relatively calm at DLRC. The past several months we've been asking for coins and just in the past few

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Coins We Love: The Coin Quest Chronicles

This past week it was finally time for me to hit the road again! My last trip was in March of 2020 to attend the auction of the 1854-S $5 PCGS AU58+ and as we landed in California, the shut downs had begun. Now over a year later I was

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Coins We Love: Spring into Numismatics

First of all, thank you to everyone who tuned in to my zoom presentation last week on the Hansen Collection. That was an entertaining foray for myself and I really enjoyed the Q&A part of the discussion. We’re very fortunate to have an organization like the Newman

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Coins We Love: March Numis-Madness

This week in the DLRC office has been an adventure! The number of collections that arrived at the office and that we’ve processed through has been impressive, the auction activity over the last few weeks has been spectacular, and the outright sales have even been greater. It just goes

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Coins We Love: March Coin Madness

I mentioned last weeks CWL message how the market has been continuing to heat up and coins are selling across the board in all categories. Well, that continues to be the case. Our auction last weekend brought about some record prices and a lot of bidding activity on coins of

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Coins We Love: Market Heats Up as Winter Intensifies

We understand that many of you in the middle of the country are dealing with some extreme weather conditions, so we hope that you are safe, warm, and healthy. We were lucky to avoid the mess this week on the southeastern coast of Virginia, though our folks in the New

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Coins We Love: Bushels of Deals

Well, the week started rather ominously with a few IT issues and the internet being down in our office. For those of you who normally get your invoices immediately and pay them quickly, we apologize for the delay! We got things moving along by noon and thanks to our billing

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Coins We Love: Numismatic Legacy

We’re coming to you a day early this week as we’ve decided to close the office for a 4-day holiday weekend. As always, we be monitoring our voicemails and emails during our time away, so if we can help you, please just let us know. But, most importantly,

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Coins We Love: A Wild Wintry Week!

This has been an adventurous week in the world of coins. While the home life is starting to turn into HGTV re-runs and too many Hallmark Holiday movies, the dog and I have been busy answering emails and working in the evenings. It’s a good thing that we enjoy

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Coins We Love: A Fond Farewell

I came to DLRC in July 2006 from a large, wholesale-based coin company in an attempt to move closer to family. While I had been in the coin business for several years full-time, I had worked as a dealer on the side for over a decade beforehand. Upon my arrival,

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Coins We Love: Thanksgiving Edition!

This week’s CWL comes to you a day earlier than normal as our offices will be closed Thursday and Friday for the Thanksgiving holiday. We appreciate your understanding and encourage you to reach out to us via email at coins@davidlawrence.com if we can be of assistance during

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Coins We Love: A New Wave of Collectors

First of all, thank you to everyone who wrote back messages of all types and lengths regarding last week’s message. It’s always a please to hear from the readers and it makes my midnight ramblings a little easier to write the next week. Last week was supposed to

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Coins We Love: November News!

This past weekend was absolutely beautiful and with the weather in the 80s the bike paths were active and the boardwalk in Virginia Beach had plenty of folks getting some socially distanced exercise. Today the rain has come in and begins the Fall period that we’d expect for November.

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Coins We Love: Current Market Report

We've added another week to the ticker of time being spent in Virginia Beach and not elsewhere on the coin circuit. A few shows have popped up in different areas in recent weeks and attendance (collector and dealer-wise) has apparently been off the charts when compared to recent

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Coins We Love: Laundry Week at DLRC

We’ve had a particularly productive week at DLRC. Early in the week we received a hefty number of packages and we were able to get those turned around quickly. We purchased what was fitting for DLRC, took on consignment what would do better via an auction route, and processed

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Coins We Love: Visit the ANA Museum!

Interestingly, I had a lot of feedback from readers this past week regarding my horse-riding experience. I never realized that there was such a cross-over between coin collectors and horses, but apparently it’s quite prevalent. Another amusing cross-over that is more specific to coin dealers, is the prominence of

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Coins We Love: Home Improvement

My apologies for last week’s CWL message! My family and I had just returned from a socially-distanced vacation and I've been playing a bit of catch up around the office. Thursday went by like a speedboat and Friday…well it was busy, and that’s always a

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Coins We Love: Mid-September Mayhem

This week has gotten ahead of us a bit and unfortunately we do not have a lengthy message to share in this week's CWL. For those of you who enjoy this sort of thing, we promise to double up next week and hopefully make it twice as interesting!

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Coins We Love: Short Week Specials

We hope that the Labor Day weekend was a nice conclusion of summer for each of you. The shortened week at DLRC always creates an atmosphere of organized chaos upon our return and this time was no different. While Tuesday was full of coins flying all over the office, it