Time Travel To Get Great Coins

I would probably go back to 1916... first travel to Philly to get $50 worth of quarters, then go to Denver to get the other $50 worth of dimes.

If not 1916, then it would be 1856 and Washington DC to buy all the pennies from the Congressmen who were just presented with them. - This however wouldn't add up to the $100.00... but everyone knows how Congressmen are...I would have to give them 4 cents for their 1.

1815 and buy 10,000 early date large cents. Oh what a beautiful collection I could build. Of course on the down side, the chance of being able to actually gather together 10,000 large cents in one day would probably be unlikely.

Now if I was shooting for rich I might try the San Francisco Mint Cash Window in late Jan 1873 and get some halves and silver dollars. How long did it take to travel from San Francisco to Carson City in 1873? No forget it all I have is one day and I know I can't do it that fast. The Carson City Mint in late Jan of that year would also be good. Get some dimes and quarters. Of course just about anything from CC from that year or the preceding three would be nice.

The only problem I see in going back in time with a hundred dollars is the place and time I'd go to would look at me funny with 10 rolls of State Quarters?
I would definitely go to 1857 and stock up on Freshly minted Half and Large cents of that year.
That would equal about 13,000 key coins for 100 bucks.

Must...resist...replying to silly topic.......

Oh what the heck.

In around 1930 the US Mint was offering 1927-D $20 gold pieces at face value, you just had to pay the postage. I guess they didn't have many takers. Might be nice to go to the source and pick up 5 of those for $100.....

Warp Speed. I am on my way to Philly and buying $100 worth of 1955 doubled die Lincolns hot off the press.

Jim

I can stay right here in Denver and go back to 1914 or 1916.

I'd simply ride the trolley to the Mint (the same building then as it is today!) and pick up $100 in new 1914-D Pennies (1914) or 1916-D Mercury dimes (late 1916).

Fortunately for me, the trolley (in the 1910's) runs the same rail route into Downtown Denver that the Light Rail southwest route will eventually re-use (eight decades later!), and obviously I know the Mint's location.

Then I can go back 'home' to the farm field where my house will eventually be built , and zap back to 2008 with the coins!


That would be mind-boggling, and not just for the 400 MS 1901-S Barbers you'd have. You'd be seeing San Francisco just five years before the big 1906 earthquake. Every building you'd see near "The Granite Lady" (the old S.F. Mint) would be burned to the ground five years later!

http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906.2/ew22.html

It's no exaggeration that if you went to San Francisco in 1909 to pick up your $100 worth of "S" pennies, that you'd be in a 'whole different city' than it was even in 1901....

Carl (and others): Sorry for starting a topic that has been around before. I'm new and probably a little too gung-ho. Next time I'll check the archives before imagining that I'm actually having an original idea!

Time travel is possible; unfortunately it is unidirectional and we really have no control over it.

No need to apologize! All three of those threads I referenced are "archived" which means neither you or anyone else could have added comments to it.

IMHO, if a topic is archived and you have something new or worthwhile to add, then start a new thread and speak your mind; just add a reference (link) the original topic to maximize the conversation!