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Its the year 1860 and..................

......You are there .... living, working, breathing the air of 1860......... with your current numismatic knowledge. Alas your financials are not there and you must become clever overnight..... for the numismatic clock is ticking. What work/job are you performing, how do you amass your collection, what do you collect and how do you plan for the coins you-know-are-coming?

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  • Dennis88Dennis88 Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭
    Thief. Don't know an other job!!!

    Dennis

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  • AuldFartteAuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭
    Get a job at the Philadelphia Mint

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  • Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146
    first i find a guitar and play the darnest music the people have ever heard and be a traveling minstral
    of sorts. i,d ask only to be paid in coinage.....or was that the time of a coin shortage........anyway,
    i,d try and locate as many 1856 FE cents as i could then fly back to today in the timemachine.
    ..hows that? image
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    I'd probably starve before getting any coins.
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  • clackamasclackamas Posts: 5,615
    It would be easy to make a boat load of money. I know where some gold mines are located that were discovered after 1860.
  • TheLiberatorTheLiberator Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭
    I'd work the streets at night.....................................................................................................looking for loose change lying on on the ground! image
  • richbeatrichbeat Posts: 2,288
    Cam:

    Play 'em some Led Zep and Jimi Hendrix music and see what kind of reaction you get. image
  • NapNap Posts: 1,723 ✭✭✭✭✭
    As a Yankee, I'd join the Union army (after 1861), collect the $300 bounty, and desert.

    Repeat several times (using different identities, of course). There was one "bounty jumper" I recall that was able to do that 30+ times before getting cought.

    Remember though to save a little money to buy your way out of the draft (after 1863).
  • ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,781 ✭✭✭✭
    Get a job teaching at Harvard.

    Invent Beanie Babies, the Pet Rock, Coin Boards, a better internal combustion engine, the airplane, nearly every synthetic thermopolymer (plastic) known to man, Beanie Babies, the Pet Rock, etc.

    After a year or two, I'd then buy everything in site since I'd make Bill Gates look like a pauper!

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  • LincolnCentManLincolnCentMan Posts: 5,347 ✭✭✭✭
    If it were 1860, I think I might be worried about avoiding bullets.

    A job at the mint, as AuldFartte suggested, would probably be the best route.

    David

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