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Someone recently started a discussion thread about what coins you would buy with $500,000.00. How about this: If you could take $100 with you and travel back into time for 1 day and try to exchange that $100 (no time-related inflation problems - it STAYS as $100!) for coins in circulation or as rolls of coins from a bank, what date and what location would you travel to?
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Zoom, You're relatively new to the forum, so I'll give you a pass on this one. The exact same question was presented last Spring ... also had a $100 limit. I chose to be somewhere near a San Francisco bank in the Spring of 1893 to pick up some newly minted, local Morgan dollars.  |
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I'd go to 1804.  |
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Denver 1916. 1000 dimes would be nice.
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Sorry for bringing up a topic that's already been discussed. It never dawned on me to comb through the archives. Rookie mistake! But as long as I started it, I'd head to Phoenix, 1917. Halfway between Denver and San Francisco. The potential mix of D and S mint coins from 1909 through 1916 could be pretty awesome.
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I'd go to 1804. DL20K ... gotta ask ...Why 1804? |
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 I suppose this is a popular fantasy! Good work on the research, Jbuck!  If I could really do this, I wouldn't go back with actual money.  $100 equivalent in synthetic rubies, diamonds or otherwise high value for that time would provide a very favorable exchange. I would leave 1794 with a few sacks of large cents, silver coins, and use the balance for titles on coastal property. Edited by KurtS
10/23/2008 12:15 pm
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Why 1804 Draped bust coinage. It could be 1805 or 1806 as well though. |
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Good lord.... I thought I was the only dreamer around here.
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1793/1794, and straight to the mint where I'd get $100 (face value of course!) of Large Cents and Half Cents Imagine what I could get for an uncirculated chain cent nowdays ...  |
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Hmmm, late 18th and early 19th centuries; the US Mint.
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I have the feeling that I'm not as sophisticated or experienced as a lot of you folks. Or maybe my "inner child" is too strong. I think some of the coins and dates some of you are referencing must be worth fabulous sums of money, but without some kind of guide like RedBook I wouldn't know. When I posed the question (again - sorry that I didn't look to see that it had already been raised several times in the past) I was really thinking in terms of finding coins you LOVE rather than stocking up on coins that might make you rich in today's market. I was 12 when I started collecting in 1965. A neighbor GAVE me his well polished partial sets of Lincoln pennies, Buffalo nickels and Mercury dimes. Later on I added some SLQ's and some Walkers. Those 5 series were all I ever cared about and so many of the TOUGH dates for those came out in the 'teens, which is why I chose 1917. |
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I have a better idea.
I'd become a despot and have coins minted with my portrait.
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OK ... new set of rules in play. I would now go back to around 1935 and look up the 9-year-old lad who would be my father. I'd like to mentor him on what to collect. Had he only know the vast treasures that were easily within his reach and could have made his hard life much easier. I know, I know all you "Back to the Future" buffs ... I'd be messing with the Space/Time continuum and would probably negate my existence. But I wish dad could have had things easier.
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Very admirable of you! |
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Posted 10/23/2008 11:38 am
