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 69 bucks for a coin was a lot in those days. I was not even thought of yet |
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I had been collecting for about 10 years at that time and really, really wanted to buy a 1909S VDB for $99. But just couldn't afford it.
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I was 14 at the time and had just bought a $20 Liberty gold piece with my earnings from mowing lawns for $2.50 a lawn. It was my first summer of working and buying coins. I still have the coin. Should have bought more but was only trying to assemble a type set of gold coins. I was able to get all the liberty coins that summer, $2.50, $5, $10 and $20. Wish I had bought rare dates instead of common gold.
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I was a young Third Class Petty Officer living on the local economy in Puerto Rico with a wife and three month old baby daughter. I didn't have any coins - current or old at the time. Great times though.
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1969 was the year I started actively collecting coins.
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I was in utero, verging on the third trimester. My parents bought the house they are still living in that year for $28,000, now worth at least $500,000.
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I was in utero, verging on the third trimester. As was I!  |
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I had been collecting for about 10 years at that time and really, really wanted to buy a 1909S VDB for $99. But just couldn't afford it. The question is did you catch up with it. In 1969 it was $100 in Good, and it was growing at about 3% per year. So after 20 years of collecting in 1979 it was still just $150. It slowed down after that and over the next ten years it only grew by about 2% a year ending at $200 In 1989 (A MS-61 was listed in 1989 at $325.) In 1969 I was eight years old, studying coins but I would not start collecting for three more years yet. |
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Yes, I finally bought the 1909S VDB. Cost was a little over $500 at the time. Glad I did because I couldn't afford one at today's prices just like in '69.
Nice Fun Tread.
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My Mother was a Sophomore in high school. LOL
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I would have been 6 then, and didn't start to collect coins for 4 more years. Then I collected for about a year before we robbed while on vacation. It took the wind out of my sail, and I didn't start back up collecting until within the last year.
Edited to add: I wish I knew now, what I should have learned back then! I wish I would have picked collecting back up after that.
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07/01/2010 6:35 pm
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 This was from a dealer's ad from Cal. in that same issue.  |
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I wish I had discovered coins in the 1990's at those prices rather than in 2007-8!  |
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Those are prices from 1969
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Fatboy,
That might have been a good deal, or an overgraded coin. The Graysheet for then shows a F as $125. Considering that listed price is close to 20% below sheet price I would wonder about the grading.
Oh and sheet for XF was $145 and Unc was $180
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07/02/2010 1:53 pm
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