Wouldn't a time machine be nice right about now?

tommy44

This ad appeared in Coin World, Wednesday, September 25, 1970

Does anyone still have any of those $56.50 $20s? I have a few $5 Libs I bought from them for $30.00 each. How about there price on BU rolls of 1903-O dollars or better yet a roll of 78-CCs for $11,00 per coin?

Those were the good old days. Of course back then a good paying job only paid $6 or $7 per hour.

1630Boston

A time machine would be great, IF you knew the future when you went back in time.
Happy New Year
Boston

Jimnight

Wow ... how I can remember those days.

ctf_error_coins

The good ole days are now, live it.

A time machine, I would play the stock market.

CaptHenway

You wouldn't like it. The jet lag is terrible!

CCGGG

I've got a couple of "Blue Books" from the mid 60's that are interesting to look through from time to time. I couldn't afford coin prices back then. Heck, I couldn't even afford the price of a Red Book back then, that's why I have some of the Blue Books.

Coinstartled

@ErrorsOnCoins said:
The good ole days are now, live it.

A time machine, I would play the stock market.

You would end up with General Motors, Sears and Bethlehem Steel.

Smudge

My local coin shop still wants to buy for those prices.

ctf_error_coins

@Coinstartled said:

@ErrorsOnCoins said:
The good ole days are now, live it.

A time machine, I would play the stock market.

You would end up with General Motors, Sears and Bethlehem Steel.

I own a V-8 Toyota, My lifetime expenditures at Sears were less that I paid eBay this month, I do not deal in Steel cent errors because of corrosion.

So I never would have picked your stock picks.

golden

I remember $20's being advertised in Coin World for $48 in the early 1960's. I wanted one but did not have enough money.

2dueces

Buy Apple or Microsoft and buy all the $20’s you can carry. 1980’s but still. 😂

jmlanzaf

@2dueces said:
Buy Apple or Microsoft and buy all the $20’s you can carry. 1980’s but still. 😂

The $20s would be a mistake. S&P 500 is up 3500% since 1970. Those $56 20s would need to be worth $1960 today to have kept up.

Zoins

If you could only go forward or backward, which would you go? Seems like most people would like to go backward?

kevinstang

I'd take a couple rolls of the 85-cc's, ah what the heck a couple of the 81cc morgan rolls too

Walkerfan

@kevinstang said:
I'd take a couple rolls of the 85-cc's, ah what the heck a couple of the 81cc morgan rolls too

Was thinking the same thing!

edwardjulio

Backward, way backward. The heck with numismatics, I want to know who built the pyramids and when.

1630Boston

https://youtu.be/Psxktpxkc6o

BryceM

Most of us would be lost if we suddenly showed up in 1970. No Wifi, no Starbucks, no microwave, and no slabs. No stickers even. I wouldn’t know what to buy!

1630Boston

@BryceM said:
Most of us would be lost if we suddenly showed up in 1970. No Wifi, no Starbucks, no microwave, and no slabs. No stickers even. I wouldn’t know what to buy!

I agree but think that I could quickly adapt

1630Boston

Perhaps going back to the 60's would be more enjoyable ??

BillDugan1959

My present life is really very good. If I were to change a single second of the past, things might be radically different. Changing the past seems very risky and undesirable to me.

Reverie, maybe, but reality no.

mustangmanbob

So, no one wants to use the time machine to prevent 9/11, Pearl Harbor, assassination of ______, etc., polio vaccine?

Just coins and stocks?

Appears the Nobel Prize will not be forthcoming.

emeraldATV

My LIER Jet is my time machine...Gotta go. On to Central Time

kiyote

@Zoins said:
If you could only go forward or backward, which would you go? Seems like most people would like to go backward?

If you go backward in time you basically become a god with infinite knowledge of the future (depending on how much you paid attention to things in the present)

But if you go 500 years into the future it’s going to be cybernetically augmented humans with their brains jacked into a giant neural network. You and I might as well be chimpanzees there.

BillJones

I was there. A price of $49 was a lot of money back then. Getting and saving $100 for coins at Christmas was a big deal at that time. If you had bought one of those $20 gold coins, it probably would been very bag marked and perhaps not Unc. It may have been a Lebanese counterfeit. They were around then.

I overpaid at $75, but it was genuine. Today it’s in an MS-64 holder.

kiyote

Let’s not forget the paper money you can get from that time period as well.. in the mid-1980s I was still pulling silver certificates from the Taco Bell cash drawer that I worked at— and occasionally blue seal fives. I saw plenty of 1950 $10s But I could not afford to keep them

jmlanzaf

@kiyote said:
Let’s not forget the paper money you can get from that time period as well.. in the mid-1980s I was still pulling silver certificates from the Taco Bell cash drawer that I worked at— and occasionally blue seal fives. I saw plenty of 1950 $10s But I could not afford to keep them

You're lucky. Those notes would not have been worth saving. Your $1 silver certificate would be worth less than $2 today while $1 in stock would be worth $35 and $1 in gold bullion would be worth $25.

ricko

I lived through those times.... and though the prices are attractive today, they were expensive then....And in 1970 I was not living in the U.S....No, I do not want to go back... I have great memories....Looking forward to the future. Cheers, RickO

CaptHenway

@mustangmanbob said:
So, no one wants to use the time machine to prevent 9/11, Pearl Harbor, assassination of ______, etc., polio vaccine?

Just coins and stocks?

Appears the Nobel Prize will not be forthcoming.

Why would you want to prevent polio vaccine?