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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

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Coins We Love: Happy Labor Day

This week has been a nice change of pace for us as things seemed to just move a bit smoother. We somewhat expected that going into a holiday weekend, but you never know for sure until it arrives. As usual, the auction is plugging along, there are packages flying in

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Coins We Love: nuTilt News and Newman Portals

Wow! What a week. Thank you for the kind words and constructive help with our new imaging platform, nuTilt. We’ve continued to work through it this week and have added a few slight improvements as we can. Over on our blog we also have a helpful FAQ on nuTilt

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CWL: Introducing nuTilt

As good as our imaging department is, we've always had to tell customers that the coin looks better in-hand. The reality is, a still image, no matter how well photo-graphed can only show so much, and we've always hoped to be able to someday bridge that

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Coins We Love: Weathering the Storms

Some weeks are better than others, but the one thing we’ve learned is that we shouldn’t be surprised by anything in 2020. On Monday we were welcomed to our office with locked doors thanks to an electrical issue and once we were finally able to enter, our internet

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Coins We Love: It's Raining Gold and Silver!

Well, this week at DLRC has proved to be a remarkably interesting one. We were supposed to be in Pittsburgh, PA for the World’s Fair of Money, but it was understandably canceled. Two substitute shows popped up in Dallas and Las Vegas this week and we considered attending those

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Coins We Love: Golden Opportunities!

Wow! What a week. Last Friday gold reached what was very close to a record high, so when Sunday evening arrived and the market opened overseas, I saw gold jumping all around, beating record numbers from several years ago. At that point, I knew that we’d have a crazy

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Coins We Love: National Coin Shortage Continues

As you might have seen, we are once again honored to showcase a few more of the duplicates (or triplicates or quadruplicates) from the D.L. Hansen Collection [https://www.davidlawrence.com/en-us?tb=393161&PriceLow=0&PriceHigh=100000000&GradeLow=0&GradeHigh=70&auctionIds=644286,

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Coins We Love: Return of the Hansen Highlights

Well, first of all, I’ll warn you…this week’s CWL might ramble a bit as I was working on it a bit later at night than normal. Why the late night you may ask? Well, we’ve had a number of special projects going on this week, that

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Coins We Love: Making Cents of the World

I wish I had been counting how many weeks we’ve been at home, but it’s probably best that I didn't. All I know is that it feels like I should be at a coin show. After 20 years of traveling at least once a month, it

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Coins We Love: Star-Spangled Edition

First of all, we wish everyone a wonderful Independence Day and hope that you’re able to enjoy some time to celebrate the freedoms that we experience in this country. We’ll be closed on Friday in observance of the holiday, but we’ll be checking emails over the weekend,

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Coins We Love: High-End Highlights

Every day brings about something different here at DLRC. This week we were privileged to bring together some really interesting and fresh key date pieces that have been put away for years, along with a trio of amazing rarities in the Tri-Century Collection [https://www.davidlawrence.com/en-us?collectionIds=301101]

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Coins We Love: Half Cent Heaven

This has been a fascinating week, numismatically speaking. The ANA Summer Show has been cancelled for only the third time since 1891. Prior to 2020, the show had only been cancelled in 1918 due to the flu pandemic and in 1945 during World War II. While it seems to be

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CWL: Awesome Auction Assortments

The world finds us in an interesting place this week. Coming from a history and religion background, I tend to enjoy long, philosophical conversations. But, I’ve also long been frustrated when the “right” answers are difficult to pin down. And that’s precisely how I ended up finding solace

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Coins We Love: Updates and Stamp Plates

First and foremost, we hope that our readers are healthy and remaining safe during this momentous time in our country’s history. While things continue to gradually change economically and socially, we continue to process coins as usual. The office highlights this week were really topped off by a cleaning

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Coins We Love: Return of the Staff!

This week has brought along a return of some normalcy to our offices as we’ve been allowed to run with a full-staff once again. While masks are the new wardrobe requirement, we’ve been thankful to get back into action! We returned from the 3-day weekend on Tuesday to

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Coins We Love: Memorial Weekend Wonders

First of all, we hope that everyone is staying healthy. This has been an odd time for all of us, but it has forced us to pause and to consider what is most important. We’ve appreciated all of your kind thoughts and understanding as we continue to weave our

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Coins We Love: Early May Musings

Important Note: If you are sending us packages (which we encourage!) please call us first so we know to expect your package. Depending on the package, we may have special procedures that can help you with expediting your delivery. Some weeks are certainly more interesting than others at DLRC. This

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Coins We Love: Consignment Specials Edition

Important Note: If you are sending us packages (which we encourage!) please call us first so we know to expect your package. Depending on the package, we may have special procedures that can help you with expediting your delivery. This Week In DLRC As a baseball fan, growing up I

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Coins We Love: Springtime Specials

Important Note: If you are sending us packages (which we encourage!) please call us first so we know to expect your package. Depending on the package, we may have special procedures that can help you with expediting your delivery. We’ve certainly hit an interesting point in the coin market