Latest eBay Pickup - not COINS, but COINS
lsica
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Picked this up on Ebay.
Copy of the first coin book I ever owned. One of Norman Stack's COINS books you used to see at the grocery store checkout in the 1970's. Yes I know it was just a silly nostalgia buy but couldn't resist. After reading it I decided to figure out how would I have done if as a pre-teenaged youngster I had "unlimited" funds and bought everything listed in the "Common Coins" section (stuff found in a 20th Century Type Set) in the highest grade listed in the book that listed for over $50 (btw note what coins considered major keys today are NOT on that list.). So I made a little chart, first to figure an estimated retail price over the "buy" prices in the book (I estimated 33% over), how much that amount would be in today's money (Inflation Calculator says 7.5x from mid 1973 to today), and what the current Greysheet wholesale would be for the same coins in the same grade (used the non-CAC base grades)
Oy guess I shoulda spent less money on girls and cars and things that come with a "misspent youth" 
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I like the chart. It tells me you should have bought the 1901-S Barber and the 1893-S Morgan.
Ya fer sher
In for ~$570 back then and now ~$28K
As I recall from WAY back, unc coins weren’t a heck of a lot more expensive than circulated coins, if you could find the keys.