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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;omahaorange, post: 1533215, member: 28199&quot;]If you&#039;re talking a profit/loss statement, face value is irrelevant.&nbsp; You would need to list what you paid for the coins against what you sold them for.&nbsp; If your dimes were &quot;junk&quot; silver (worth only spot) and the Morgan has additional numismatic value, your comparing apples to oranges.&nbsp; My guess, the Morgan cost you $500-$525, can&#039;t tell because you didn&#039;t get a trade quote (although I suspect there was no additional value if he didn&#039;t specify it).</p><p><br /></p><p>If my math&#039;s right, you paid roughly $2.10 per dime.&nbsp; You kept 69 of those, at a cost to you of about $145, leaving you with $315 worth of dimes.&nbsp; You got an offer of $340 (already a $25 increase) and added $160 for the Morgan.&nbsp; So it looks like at this point you are $135 in the hole for the Morgan.&nbsp; You still have 69 of those dimes (an asset, and not a factor in the purchase of the Morgan). Compare that to the fair market value of that coin, and decide if you&#039;re still down or up.&nbsp; But keep in mind that if you later sell the Morgan, it will be the actual purchase price, and not FMV, that determines profit/loss.&nbsp; At this point you haven&#039;t lost any money, as you still have the assets (coins).</p><p><br /></p><p>So, you have 69 dimes, and a slabbed CC Morgan that cost you $560.&nbsp; Current FMV is $720-760 (depending on whether it is a capped or not) for the Morgan (<a href="http://www.numismedia.com/fmv/prices/mordlr/pricesgd.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.numismedia.com/fmv/prices/mordlr/pricesgd.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.numismedia.com/fmv/prices/mordlr/pricesgd.shtml</a>) and about $173 for the dimes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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