Don't You Wish You Could Travel To The Future!

yeah, I was thinking 44-D too; but what is up with that second vertical line that is closest to the 9? I vote that it's a new rare discovery of a 14/44 D, and worth thousands more than the sellers asking price....:-P

On the second thought, I should shoot an offer for 2 cents. Any 2 pennys I give him would be worth more than his.

Speaking of time travle I would love to travel in the past and get a bunch of old coins from different eras. Especially key dates. Thats what I need to do invent a time machine. Can anybody tell me where to start.

IF you could travel into the future, what coins would you take with you from this generation?

Didn't Jules Verne write a Dummies book for this?

Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA

Pre 33 US Gold- if I could go back.....I'd also spread the word about the 16th amendment being a fraud to steal the gold & silver from the American Citizen's pocket. I'd most likely go stomp J.P.Morgan, break into the meeting that created the conspiracy of the federal reserve at Jeckel Island, and pump .223 rounds into those banker slimeballs.

Imagine going back to hit the fed, and return to your time to see your people buying groceries with gold coins in the 21st century....John Titor anyone?

Dare to dream of LIBERTY!

amac44 - I started the new topic, but I feel like I kinda stole johnny54321's idea. I feel so cheap! Can't even think up a topic all my by lonesome.
But if I could go BACK in time, I'd try to get those 3-cent silver trimes after 1862, which were only issued in very limited amounts as proofs. Yes, I'd get lots and lots of proofs!! I would get commemoratives BU and Proofs, and I'd get lots of really nice Shield nickels with Rays! Just how far am I going back? If I was going back to Colonial days, I'd sure pick up some nice Colonials, all sorts, kinds you never even heard of before. I'd get some of the Novio Constellios, or whatever they're called, and those Pine and Birch coin dealies. I'd sure get me a $4 Stella while I was back in one of those time zones.

Travelling into the future is easy. We're all doing it, at a rate of one second per second. So the question is really just a tricky way of asking "What coins do I want to have in a few year's time when I'm older?".

Speeding the rate up is relatively easy, too, and I mean "relatively" in both senses of the word: simply travel at close to the speed of light, and relativity will take you into the future at a much faster rate than the rest of the universe. Unfortunately, current technology doesn't allow us to travel at anywhere near that kind of speed.

Another option is the "Buck Rogers method" of time travel: freezing yourself. Of course, you'd have to make sure somebody doesn't come along and steal your stash of coins while you're cryosleeping.

But travelling back to the present again once you make the trip, that's the really tricky part. Because you'd be in the future, and travelling back to the present would be going backwards in time - something, as has been pointed out in the other time-travelling threads, which is either completely impossible or only possible with the aid of extremely hyperadvanced technology, and a universe which didn't disallow such things from happening.