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Decided to comment here on this, your first Journal entry… all the way back on June 14, 2007… while today is October 21, 2023.

From what I can tell, you're the most prodigious Journal participant on NGC's "boards," and you seem to have mastered "how it all works."

My current goals are to take my Journal entries forward, and I intend to study your approach of Content, entry cover photo, imbedded photos, and general layout… for beauty of presentation.

Btw, a fellow Chem E. major, with a degree from ASU back in 1985.

Best,

Bob

On 9/8/2023 at 2:05 AM, jgenn said:

It is so important to track the financial details of all coin purchases.  The US Internal Revenue Service has a category to handle the capital gains or losses of collectibles, such as coins.  You must be able to establish the cost basis for your collectible in order to calculate the gain or loss when you or your heirs sell. You are always required to declare gains, even from "hobby" profits. You do need to understand the regulations in order to claim losses, and with all the buyer and seller fees involved that you can claim in your cost basis you may need to claim a loss.

jgenn, yes, you are correct, and I do have the actual Invoices for my purchases.  In fact, I even still have the Invoices and a few receipts for every coin I purchased but then returned during grace periods.

When I was working at that time, I had access to the office printer, and I worked late, often.  With most of the office having left for the day already, I worked out a system of laying the Invoices together on the glass surface of the copy machine so that one sheet of copy paper was used.  I printed one side, then physically had to reinsert that sheet back into the feed tray upside-down, put the remaining other Invoices on the glass surface, and do a print of them on its opposite side.

The single sheet of copy paper could then be placed in the copy feed, Select Print Both Sides, Size Reduction %, and Number of Copies.  Voila!

With the Size Reduction, and clever folding of the both-sides print, the folded output fits perfectly in an edges-trimmed, single-slab, Coin ARMOUR protective pouch, which fits snuggly into the "secret compartment" of the lid of the HIMITSU-BAKO 54+1 STEP Japanese Puzzle Box.

High quality copy machine; the printing looks fresh as the day I did it nine years ago.  In this way, if the actual Invoices should ever get "lost," there still will be a facsimile of the Invoices retained with the coin collection.

I'm a homeowner, and in the last three months I've learned that my house has an inherent roof leak when the wind and rain are blowing from the south.

Otherwise, no leak!

Have been living here for twenty years, and have had the roof replaced twice in this time.  Yet no one knew.

Weeks of experiment and deduction this past summer — and a test with a garden hose — finally obviated what needs to be done.

Hoping to have the work undertaken in early September 2023… next week.  Just a few thousand $$.

Actually, make that "an ice cold beer" is more like it. (a slight rearrangement of one space says it better)

Enjoy "a nice cold coin?"

These summers days, after doing home maintenance outside, "a nice cold beer" is more like it.

First time for me to visit here, your Journal site.  I was only interested in who wins the Journal awards, and what sort of Journals win awards.

So here I am on this page.  I like the old leather-bound-books photo of yours, and then I moved down to what you wrote.

Such a bittersweet entry.  The words carefully thought out, and the extremely attractive coin that you attached, perhaps your favorite.

Pray that you find strength and solace in the days ahead.

Bob