The work to establish your basis is on you. For something like those mint sets you can pretty easily establish what you paid (mint prices) and a...
Worst case is its all considered gains. But realistically if you know approx when you purchased stuff, you can use an old Red Book as your basis.
[ATTACH] Doesn't look like much, does it? It's the first sample I bought.
Please do not post screen captures or photos of screens. Pixelation loses information, there's too much extraneous information, etc. Many of the...
Ignore... again, please do not post pictures of screens. The pixelization makes the image useless. A fair number of people who are usually willing...
Please do not post pictures of screens. The pixelization makes the image useless. A fair number of people who are usually willing to help simply...
S might be the Sear #, e.g. Roman Coins And Their Values By David R Sear Online (more modern): https://numismatics.org/ocre/
The intrinsic (gold melt) value swamps the numismatic value and makes them useless except for bullion. If you look at common date gold price...
Generally, there is a pulse at the start, and sometimes traffic picks up the last couple hours. In the middle it can be fairly slow, and dealers...
Ask the mint for the records under FOIA.
You are entitled to your opinion. But it doesn't matter. If the mint calls them circulation and books the costs and seignorage to circulation...
Yes. They have the Fed's rolling 12 m forecast. They have the numismatic estimates. From that they schedule production of dies, production of...
I have no problem when people come here, ask questions and then even ask intelligent follow-ups. People who come here, ask, and then argue with...
Seems like a perfectly respectable submission. Congrats!
Why? It's the correct name of the phenomenon. Our brains are hard-wired to see patterns in limited data, at the accepted risk of occasional...
He's dead, Jim. Are those repunched? Nope, just hesitation marks. It's all in the autopsy report.
Why should there be a single price guide? Even within a single TPG, coins aren't all the same. A PCGS plastic 1909-S VDB in XF40BN could be just...
If it's the greysheet CPG quarterly, that's intended to be a retail price guide for collectors. The greysheet itself is a wholesale price guide...
Starting point to all the above would be whether you are a business or a hobby. Key among the business definition is both the intent to make a...
Actually what you really want if you have serious tax problems is an IRS Enrolled Agent, not a CPA. (Yes, You can obviously have multiple...
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