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Can you beat this cost basis for generic gold coins??

LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,682 ✭✭✭✭✭
Talked with a coin weenie friend at the golf course the other day. Said he was selling some generic gold coins.

Asked what his average cost was - said he bought them early in the 1970's, average cost basis about $38 bucks!

No wonder I'm still doing piece work and he's retired. image

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    MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,614 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I was 10 years old in 1977 when I started collecting coins. Why didn't I think to spend my allowance and gift money on generic gold?!?!

    Of course, about 3 years later gold skyrocketed to over $800 an ounce.
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    LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pretty good, but those dollars were worth a lot more than our dollars today.

    Placed in the right stocks he might be even better off, but that may also have been a crapshoot
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    mommam17mommam17 Posts: 971 ✭✭✭
    In 1968 $20's were $60-65 and rolls of them were $1200. And I had to fall in love with commems!!

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