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Wow. What a week at the ANA Show!

Wow. What a week. We’re at the ANA show in Pittsburgh this week and, as we’ve said over the last few months, the market is incredibly active. We’ve been here since Saturday afternoon and the activity has been near-overwhelming; we’ll have a more comprehensive report

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Coins We Love: What Can Numismatics Learn From Baseball?

I recently took an end-of-the-school-year trip to Cooperstown, NY, to see the Baseball Hall of Fame and downtown area with my youngest non-numismatically interested son, Luke. He somehow got my sports interest gene, so his goals this summer were to hit a few more Major

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Coins We Love: ANA Is Just Around the Corner—Here’s What’s Happening at DLRC

There are really only two busy seasons in numismatics, where there is a time crunch to get things moving…before the FUN Show in December/January and before the ANA Show in July/August. We’re in the throes of putting everything together, making sure our coins are priced and

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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

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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

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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

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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

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A Cartful of Captions

Thanks everyone for submitting captions for our latest DLRC office image caption contest! While the DLRC staff has yet to decide on a winner, we wanted to share some of the hilarious responses we received from our friends across the nation! Readers of our weekly Coins We Love email were

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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

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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

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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

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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=