What coins would you like to use where and when...

magikbilly

Hello

I have not started a thread in a while it seems. This one is about application.
What coins would you like to spend when they were active and where/why?

I would like to use a Walker and a Washington, 75 cents, to enter the 1939 New York World's Fair. I'd use two Buffs for the LIRR train ride in. I'd need another 25C for a guidebook and a pocketful of Mercs for all the souvenirs, though some cost as much as $2.00! If you knew what to do when you could eat free - Hienz, Swift Premium, Wonderbread, Mayflower...all samples.
Dinner I would splurge in the Aviation Bar and Grill. A Washington and a Merc for a beverage, ham, dressing, mashed potato's, string beans, a dinner roll, desert and coffee.
Why? I guess I'd like a change.

What/where/when would you like to spend?

Eric

USMarine6

Id like to spend a merc dime to buy a candy bar back in the day

CoinCast

I would use 4 Barber Halves to buy the Columbian Exposition Half Dollar and Isabella Quarter. Though the Barber Half would have also been new at the time, so knowing myself I would have probably ended up saving those and used older Seated Halves.

magikbilly

<< <i>I would use 4 Barber Halves to buy the Columbian Exposition Half Dollar and Isabella Quarter. Though the Barber Half would have also been new at the time, so knowing myself I would have probably ended up saving those and used older Seated Halves. >>




Good answer! Thank you.

Eric

Zoins

Taking a roadtrip and buying gas for a quarter per gallon would have been nice

410a

US MARINE 6; NICE GOING PAL..........I happened to have spent nickels on candy bars. A dime, a dime he says........geez I GOT TWO FOR DIME...These kids these days..........OH the horror, the horror....

LanLord

I'd spend 8 Franklin half dollars to fill up my Rolls-Canardly in 1960.

SkyMan

I'd like to be a technician sneaking a Mercury aboard Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft before launch.

Justlooking

A Liberty nickel to get into a vaudeville show ... if they cost a nickel ...

magikbilly

<< <i>I'd like to be a technician sneaking a Mercury aboard Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft before launch. >>




HAH! I should have seen that coming - great answer! It is fantaSY - surprised you didn't place yourself as Gus himself! Personally, I think my heart would reach more then the 300 beats per minute that ..Crippen's did during the first launch of the shuttle (Crippen? I just remember the heart rate!) I enjoy when the answer is connected to another hobby, or an answer like CoinCast - say, these are all good! Cheap gas, candy bars...penny candies too! Or, as in Grapes of Wrath, two for a penny candies.

Best wishes,
Eric

lkeigwin

<< <i>Id like to spend a merc dime to buy a candy bar back in the day >>

In my day candy bars were a nickel. Same as the cost for a big dill pickle from the barrel. A 5-stick pack of Wrigley's gum was also a nickel. Buffalo or Jefferson, they were both common in the 60's.

A dime would get you the latest DC comic. I wish i'd saved them.
Lance.

SmEagle1795

I'd love to have spent coins at the ancient Olympics. They were held in Elis, Olympia and all foreign money had to be exchanged for the local currency, giving the province a bit of profit as well to pay for the games. Everything from food to lodging was paid for with the specially-minted coinage made just for the games.

I passed on a few mint-state examples to instead acquire VF coins, loving the fact that they circulated at the games.

This coin is from the 112th Olympics: (in 332 BC)


And this one is from the 93rd Olympics: (in 408 BC)

GrumpyEd

If I could travel in time, I'd bring some cull silver dollars or whatever is old and cheap now and go back to some year where I can get change in new cents at the bank like 1877 IHCs or 1909-s VDBs or 1914-Ds fresh from the mint at face value.

BLUEJAYWAY

Any Jeff./Buff. nickel to buy all the 5 cent vintage,50's/60's, baseball packs I could find and carry.

CoinCast

<< <i>I'd love to have spent coins at the ancient Olympics. They were held in Elis, Olympia and all foreign money had to be exchanged for the local currency, giving the province a bit of profit as well to pay for the games. Everything from food to lodging was paid for with the specially-minted coinage made just for the games.

I passed on a few mint-state examples to instead acquire VF coins, loving the fact that they circulated at the games.
>>



That is very cool! I just visited Olympia about 2 months ago, it is very interesting place to see.

pcunix

<< <i>Id like to spend a merc dime to buy a candy bar back in the day >>



I'm sure I'm not the only one reading who is old enough to have done that

Those of us who grew up in the fifties or earlier also spent real silver dollars now and then.

Coinstudy

How about a small denomination gold coin to pay for a cup of coffee and then asking for your change.

magikbilly

Very creative answers here - thank you all

Eric

Liking the gold for coffee thing...fill those pockets with the change

OldEastside

Having a pocket full of Brand New Buffalo Nickels, playing a nickel slot and sipping 5 cent beer

Steve

magikbilly

<< <i>I'd love to have spent coins at the ancient Olympics. They were held in Elis, Olympia and all foreign money had to be exchanged for the local currency, giving the province a bit of profit as well to pay for the games. Everything from food to lodging was paid for with the specially-minted coinage made just for the games.

I passed on a few mint-state examples to instead acquire VF coins, loving the fact that they circulated at the games.

This coin is from the 112th Olympics: (in 332 BC)


And this one is from the 93rd Olympics: (in 408 BC)
>>



One of the best answers in my opinion! Obviously, seriously cool coinage!!!!
And beautiful. I fully agree with the logic of the circulated example. Less $ more bang certainly! And to me also, more desirable. Please, I see the eagle on the front of the second, and what a startling rendering, but what is the Obverse?

Eric

ambro51

I would walk twenty nine miles with a leather bag heavy with a few hundred Vermont coppers........to pay the taxes on my farm.

SmEagle1795

<< <i>
One of the best answers in my opinion! Obviously, seriously cool coinage!!!!
And beautiful. I fully agree with the logic of the circulated example. Less $ more bang certainly! And to me also, more desirable. Please, I see the eagle on the front of the second, and what a startling rendering, but what is the Obverse? >>



Thanks! Zeus was the patron god of Olympia and therefore the Olympic coinage features him and his iconography. The reverse of the second coin is a thunderbolt, thrown by Zeus. The Greeks had a creative interpretation of what thunder looked like, giving it wings and making it rather stylized.

The Eagle was Zeus' animal, always by his side, and eventually, this mythology was widespread enough to not need to show Zeus at all; his eagle along was sufficient to honor him.

Perhaps also of interest is that the obverse of the first coin is modeled after the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, a massive, four-storey tall statue which was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (although it unfortunately didn't survive).

magikbilly

<< <i>

<< <i>
One of the best answers in my opinion! Obviously, seriously cool coinage!!!!
And beautiful. I fully agree with the logic of the circulated example. Less $ more bang certainly! And to me also, more desirable. Please, I see the eagle on the front of the second, and what a startling rendering, but what is the Obverse? >>



Thanks! Zeus was the patron god of Olympia and therefore the Olympic coinage features him and his iconography. The reverse of the second coin is a thunderbolt, thrown by Zeus. The Greeks had a creative interpretation of what thunder looked like, giving it wings and making it rather stylized.

The Eagle was Zeus' animal, always by his side, and eventually, this mythology was widespread enough to not need to show Zeus at all; his eagle along was sufficient to honor him.

Perhaps also of interest is that the obverse of the first coin is modeled after the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, a massive, four-storey tall statue which was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (although it unfortunately didn't survive). >>




Thanks! I know Zuess well, just did not recognize. He is part of one of my paintings with his cup boy Ganymede but I represent him with a constellation of embedded gems in a field of lapis and roasted ivory on copper. Great coin!

Eric

johnny9434

<< <i>Taking a roadtrip and buying gas for a quarter per gallon would have been nice >>

ill second that one big time.

Staircoins

I'd like to have the honor of giving my great grandchildren their first $20 gold coin to celebrate their college graduations many, many years from now.

(For reference, my son is only 12 now.)

Flash

I would like to use a Liberty-head nickel at Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 8, 1886 to buy one of the very first glasses of Coca-Cola ever sold.

shorecoll

I got my license in 1975, had a 32 gal gas tank and could fill it for $10. I'd trade a $10 liberty gold for a roll of those 1901-S quarters fresh from the mint.