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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 26228789, member: 27832&quot;]One oddity here in North Carolina is that <i>coins and bullion</i> are exempt from sales tax, but <i>jewelry</i> is not.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, want to buy a 1ozt AGE in a big heavy bezel that contains another 2/10ozt of gold? That&#039;ll be close to $4000 even if it&#039;s sold at melt, plusc another $300 for sales tax.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pop the coin out of the bezel and sell the two separately? The coin&#039;s tax-free, and tax on the bezel (I think it&#039;s still counted as jewelry) will be $50.</p><p><br /></p><p>Melt the bezel into a blob and sell it? Now it&#039;s completely tax-free. Not sure if you can make it &quot;not-jewelry&quot; by just pounding it into a lump.</p><p><br /></p><p>If a dealer tried to sell that krugerrand-in-a-bezel here, sales tax on the coin-in-a-bezel would be more than the value of the bezel itself. It would absolutely make more sense to sell them individually, with a &quot;free installation&quot; service if the customer wanted them assembled.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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