I’m not an expert on it but the capitol gains as far as I know are on profits exactly as you say –

The further down side to coin collecting is we can’t write off a loss if we sell one of those $73 coins for $23 we just lost $50 end of story – but with stocks at least you can write off the $50 if a wash sale is not involved

The IRS has it’s own written code for this you can google it and I think Rich mentioned Investopedia or investing.com may have better explanations.

Exactly that’s why all the Youtube – Doom and Gloom Gurus have been wrong for so long – calling for the fake “Reset” and the next “Housing Crash” that just has not happened.

I’m in a boom area and these people who were in the stock market instead of buying gold and silver are now paying cash for houses and you don’t lose a house you paid cash for very often.

You can always motion for it if you feel you need it – the judge if very understanding

Sir Kaiser, you could apply your argument to Exeter’s Inverted Pyramid.

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Sigh. Once again, you can believe anything you want and apparently do, but your hateful and hurtful comments about LGBTQ people and women are not appropriate on a coin forum — or anyplace else, actually. Kindly keep your homophobic and sexist comments to yourself.

Riddle me that and I’ll Riddle you this………………. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSnosk4tWrg

Let’s take your mind off all of that and see if you can find the secret shield in the new UK Coinage when all coins are placed in the proper secret order………………………..

Just popped over to Coin World – very boring there 2 comments and one was challenging the Coin World author’s assertions which further backs up your findings.

Someone mentioned a 500,000 ASE enrollment limit with unlimited additional coins available on April, 14 on the website – even if it was just 500,000 or 200,000 it’s just too many and there’s no value in that product with those kind of numbers not to mention but I will – your paying over $70 bucks for $20 Bucks of Shiny.

I guess nations go bankrupt just like people do, slowly at first, then all at once.