I once had a listing rejected until I removed my statement in the description that "...from my photo you can obviously see this is NOT an MS70,...
IIRC, there is one caveat: any single purchase over $1000 must be reported and tax paid at the regular rate.
It is possible that the owning of "trophy coins" will fall out of fashion. Every once-in-a-while, the appraiser on Antiques Road Show would say...
I don't have an eBay shipping label in front of me right now, but I am pretty sure the label says "First Class Parcel" [or something like that]...
Back during the Hunt Brothers silver fiasco 1970, I sold off my common 20's, usually four or five a week. One day the dealer told me two of the...
Ebay once rejected my attempt to list a modern commem dollar. I finally figured out that is was because I said 'The small spot means it is NOT MS...
Help me out here. When you say "...a copy of the design", do you mean they engraved a new master die, and didn't start with the original master...
Even the US gov't with all the gold in Ft Knox couldn't keep the price down forever. I figured that out in the late 1950's and started buying...
Another word of warning on a related topic - an eBay COUPON is not the same as eBay BUCKS. I got a $50 coupon for selling four items within one...
Back when an auction involved mailing out hundreds [or even thousands] of expensive to produce and expensive to mail catalogs, I could see the 15...
The library also has the second largest collection of Confederate and Southern States currency in the world - numbering in the hundreds of...
By that logic, we should shut down every museum in the world [including the ANA Museum in Colorado Springs] and have them sell everything. No more...
Unfortunately the Met has never really been a friend of coins. Many years back, they had one of the finest collections of Roman gold known. They...
And I would add that the fact that the two "light blue" notes above are "B" block [early block], while the darker ones are "K" and "V", lends...
I go by the design: a Peace Dollar or a Lincoln cent is modern; a walking liberty half is not.
As a rule, you can not deduct hobby loses [anymore than you could deduct the "loss" when you sell a personal use car], but you can in effect take...
Since the basic point you make is a good one, I hate to quibble over terminology, but in the industry, "tax avoidance" is used to refer to legal...
You may be able to get away with not reporting profits from cash sales. But if you get audited, the IRS has sophisticated ways of finding out if...
Just guessing here, but one possibility is that after doing the the SPMC-IBNS version, someone decided it was a nice design for a promotional...
There is another version of the SPMS-IBNS Statue of Liberty card [SO43]. It replaces the society logos with an ABNC logo and text, and has a...
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