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Coins We Love: Road to the ANA

This week started off uneventfully with a little trip about 450 miles away to pick up a nice group of coins. That’s just over the number of miles that I want to drive (by 200!), so I hopped on a short, direct flight for the trip. The actual trip

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Coins We Love: The Future of the Hobby is Bright

Two of the most frequently asked questions that I’m faced with are regarding the future of the hobby are: 1. Are collectors leaving the hobby in larger numbers than are entering? 2. Are there young people interested in the hobby? If so, where are they? Well, I’ve always

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Coins We Love: Countdown to the World’s Fair of Money

This week there was an opportunity to attend a regional show in St. Louis, but we declined on the trip as it’s surprisingly difficult to get to St. Louis from Norfolk. It turns out sometimes it’s just better to be in the office as collections and deals seem

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Coins We Love: Calling for Consignments!

Well, word has it that the Summer FUN show was the busiest it has ever been…collectors crowded the aisles and there were dealers hanging around until Saturday afternoon (which is a rarity). Unfortunately for us, our travel was thwarted, but we were thrilled to hear of the activity that

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Coins We Love: Weather Changes Plans

For those of you hoping to drop by to see us at the Summer FUN show, we’re sorry for the late notice, but Hurricane Elsa canceled our flights and we were unable to make it down there this week. We are as disappointed as anyone with the issue, especially

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Coins We Love: Return of the Coin Show and a Hot Market

Well, I had a nice little message about the summer in Virginia Beach written, but then an email came through regarding the sale of the majority of NGC to Blackstone (an Investment Group). We’ve heard rumors about this for a week or two, but we didn’t know if

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Coins We Love: An Energetic Market

Wow, good to be back at the office this week, but it’s always a roller coaster! We’ve had coins flying in and out this week, with a large number of new pieces and a couple of small collections that are soon to be offered in our weekly auctions.

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Coins We Love: Expanding the Hobby

The biggest news of the week in the coin business was the recent sale of what is now the most expensive coin ever sold, the 1933 $20 PCGS/CAC MS65. Sold by Sotheby’s as an individual item in a sale of just three pieces, the coin re-entered the market

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Coins We Love: Summertime Selections

I still can’t believe it’s Thursday…When we get a four day week, we certainly don’t complain, but it makes for an incredibly hectic office. Not only do we have to get two days of work done on Tuesday, we have our hands full for the rest

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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,