Thought i'd share some 1964 Blue Book prices with ya'll.
vrtech99
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I picked up this old 1964 Blue Book, wish i could go back and buy some of these for these prices...
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I saved a 1965 Blue Book, since it's my birthyear.
Oh, to have a time machine! I wouldn't even have to go back any farther than my own babyhood!
1893s- 500
1895 prf- 1100
Dang if we had only known...
<< <i>I've often had the fantasy that I would travel back in time and go on a coin shopping binge! That would be awesome. But I'm not sure what kind of money I'd take back with me to spend. >>
There's the challenge. Let's say you had the time machine, but you couldn't bring back modern money to spend, 'cause it would cause a time paradox or whatever (ever see the end of the movie Somewhere In Time where Christopher Reeve, visiting 1912, accidentally finds a 1979 Lincoln in his pocket and is sucked into the time warp and returned to his own time?)
What would be the best thing to bring that you could trade with the folks in the past? (In other words, the cheapest?)
For 1964, it isn't that hard to figure out. Just some circulated early Lincoln Memorial cents and Jeffersons- stuff that still circulates at face value today. Just two rolls of circulated 1959-63 Memorial cents would buy you a wide variety of Morgans- shoot, you could probably still get those from the bank, then!
But what if you were going back to, say, 1864? What would you take, and what would you buy? Worn out Seated dimes to trade for BU's? Indian cents for $3 gold pieces? Confederate money for U.S. coins? (That last one might have been tough in 1864, but maybe in 1862...)
...and a little plutonium.