Time Travelers: How Would You Get Your Money?

I thought that only worked with a DeLorean?

I'd look up my parents, smack them upside the head and tell them to turn in all their circulated silver certificates for Morgans and Peace dollars! (I would much rather have 400 of them)

Buying period lower-grade Gold Certificates in the present, taking
them back to the late 1800's or early 1900's, cashing them in for
Gold coins, and returning to the present time with the coins,
quintuples your money (or more, if you get keys/semi-keys!) without
any 'ethics problem' or leaving behind 'anachronisms'. You would
simply be returning those (genuine) notes to their contemporary period!

There would be a paradox in which all of the notes that exist today
existed back then also, so every note you spend back then would
duplicate the serial number of a note existing back then.

Then again, the odds of the notes 'meeting' would be very low, and
the events of 1933 would likely insure the destruction of the 'duplicates'....

I know I am late on this one .. but just started reading this section ..

I would say buy $20 dollar gold and say go back to 1909 San Fransisco buy 40 rolls of uncirculated 1909 S vdb'S or maybe go to Denver 1916 buy 4 rolls of 1916 D dimes.

But to really make it easier .. take 1970 error money go back to 1971 and buy stock in Berkshire hathaway(BRKA) and Walmart(WMT) .. stop in 1975 and pick up some Microsoft (MSFT) then to 1990 buy a little Cisco system (CSCO) with just a few hundred invested in each of these companies you would be a very very rich person. And could buy all the coin and currency you desire.

I wonder why no one has brought up going back in time with a modern firearm. A spray of fully automatic bullets in the air would make anyone give up their coin. Also think about what modern clothing would make them think, perhaps a bullet proof riot suit. Personally I would purchase some older currency now, photocopy it enough times so that I could live for a few months.

Go back to Carson City, Nevada, rent an place overlooking the mint.
Get a job at the mint.
Figure out the routes that the coins take to where ever they are going.

Then one day I would act very sick and get sent home and/or fired, this would be the day before a delivery goes out, and the night of a new moon or very rainy night. I would sneak off in the middle of the night wearing digi-cams pushing the ultra-flat painted ATV I brought back with me until I was out of earshot of the city. I would then go to a desolate spot that I know the delivery would have to go through in the darkness at least a days walk from the mint.

Once they arrived I would blind them with a 1.5 million candlepower spot light and kick start the ATV. I would Fire a round of semi-auto tracer rounds above their heads and with my wireless PA system I would explain that I could either kill them or let them live At this point they would not know where I was but I would be flanking their position. I would quick fire a tazer at the Shot-Gunner. A quick fire would shock the heck out of him but would not knock him out. I would then use the wireless PA to explain that I could harness the power of lightning and I could strike them down at anytime. I would direct them to throw down their arms and I would Blind fold them and tie their hands. I would then load the delivery onto my ATV, kill the horses, and make my way back to town under the cover of darkness.

Once I returned to town I would gather my things for my trip home to the present. If I had not been fired from the mint for going home sick I would return to work the next morning. Once the delivery guys made their way back to the mint and the news got around about the guy that could harness lightning, had a booming voice that was so loud it sounded like an angry god, could turn the night into day with a miniature sun, rode a metal hound from he11 that could run twice as fast as any horse and growled with every breath, and stole the entire load of coin. I would use that story to act too scared to work at the mint and quit. I would tell people I was moving back east.

Return to the present with my haul. Sell a Morgan to a coin shop to make some money to get all of the rest of my coins graded by NGC/ANACS/PCGS. Then sell a couple of dozen to finance my new "Olde Coin Shoppe"

MUHUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

How about going back to Sept 5th 1774 and putting a sign-in sheet and donation jar at the entrance to Carpenter's Hall then coming back to now and selling it.

DNA
You have to factor in the stock splits. The last one was Feb 2003, 2 for 1 split.
When that happens the price per share is cut in half, but you will have two shares for every one. Money is .. well was made in the market on the splits. I believe MSFT has split over 9 times since the mid 80's. So if you had a 100 shares then you would have close to 50,000 shares today. I think there were more than 9 but that would I would have to check, if there were 11 splits like I am thinking there was then a 100 share bought in 1975 would be about 200,000 shares. Plus around the time of the last split Bill gave out a $3.00 per share dividend. Wally world is great too at least 9 stock splits, of course the real money would be on BRKA that went on the stock exchange in 1971 and today it closed at $99,850 per share. Getting around in the 1970's and coming up with money for that time would be very easy ....

I tried coretj's plan. I now have a stash of CC morgans, but they closed down the CC mint in 1893 because of me! Now everybody is going to think my gold CC mint State Quarters are just collectors pieces sold in the back of some lame magazine. At least they are still worth the 1/5 ounce of gold they contain.