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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 22810, member: 57463&quot;]Technically, not &quot;illegal&quot; or &quot;unlawful&quot; but, rather, &quot;voidable.&quot;&nbsp; You can be forced to return the money, but they cannot be forced to return the merchandise.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have lived in several states over the last five years and they all have different laws, of course.&nbsp; Also, dealers protect themselves in different ways.&nbsp; Technically, (that word again!) in Ohio is was not required to get ID, but coin dealers did it anyway.&nbsp; In Michigan, bullion and numismatic items are not subject to sales tax.&nbsp; That previous taxation had been the basis for requiring ID, which some dealers still do, in order to comply with the &quot;pawn shop laws&quot; that technically (third time!) do not apply to them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I am home now, from a numismatic conference in Calgary.&nbsp; There, I met Dr. Shailendra Bhandare, the Ashmolean (Oxford) assistant keeper of south Asian coins.&nbsp; In the car, we talked a bit about about the problem of good and evil, across cultures. He mentioned &quot;karma.&quot;&nbsp; We say: what goes around, comes around.&nbsp; If you accept stolen goods now, where is your moral footing, when you are victimized in the future?</p><p><br /></p><p>Generally, numismatic retailers that I know will just decline an offer like the one under discussion.&nbsp; Sometimes that is the best course of action.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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