Perhaps under the laws of some states. For Federal tax purposes, the house would be considered a taxable gift. Its current value minus the $14K...
Doug, I've cheered every time the Newman Portal has digitized a new series of catalogs. I love carting off the old paper. Usually donate it to...
If you let your daughter inherit your collection, then the basis (i.e. acquisition value) for her is their value on the day you died. Won't...
Both NGC and PCGS are excellent grading services and are the dominant ones for coins sold by auction houses and most dealers. If your nephew is...
On your Federal and some state tax returns, you are supposed to declare any capital gain or loss on sale of collectibles in the previous tax year....
Strike and attribution are more often associated with ancient coins. Won't find them on slabs of modern US and world coins, but of course,...
I don't have an opinion on preserving this particular press and its parts. It may be that there are enough in museums that preserving one more...
Here ya go, Jim. Enjoy! Cal [ATTACH]
Do you have floor vents? Cal
This was the only roll of halves. There were rolls of Morgan and Peace dollars, Roosevelt dimes, and Washington quarters. The coins belong to...
Newest coin in the roll was a 1965 Kennedy; oldest was a 1943 Walker. Pretty sure the uncle put the roll away in late 60's or early 70's. The...
Found the coin in the pics in a roll, which was part of my wife's uncle's estate. And no we don't get the coins :(, but I do get to go through...
Actually, acetone is produced from the degradation of fat (tryglycerides) in adipose cells; it doesn't extract fat from the cells. Short version...
A short exposure (less than an hour) of more reactive metals like copper, zinc and aluminum to high-grade acetone is unlikely to hurt them. I...
Only physical book I carry to shows is the Red Book and sometimes a Judd. I carry a smart phone, laptop, and hotspot and use these for price and...
In 2012, when I started collecting US coins again, I visited both NGC and PCGS websites and was mildly surprised they had active forums. My...
Me too. Not the 1948 part, but I'm old enough to have seen the occasional IHC or LHN or gold certificate in circulation when I was a little kid....
I think the tradition of cleaning coins in Europe came from centuries of collecting ancient coins. Virtually all ancient coins have been...
Doug, I think you're likely right about this. The problem hardly exists on 19th century silver proofs. It's also possible that the causal...
For ancient coins, that's about what it means. However, there is choice very fine terminology, which is a bit better than good very fine. So,...
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