Pretend You've been Teleported Back To 1930.

Two of you have stumbled on the same thing I thought of. For the most part today's paper money would not be passable in 1930. About the only thing you might be able to pass easily would be the one dollar bills since their design hasn't really changed much since 1929. You might still have it looked at closely though since it is a novelty having just recently been changed from the horseblanket sized notes.

With that in mind, I only have five dollars I might be able to pass. So do I try for nickels or cents. Where I live S mint coins are very unlikely. I'd probably have my best chance finding something nice in the cents than in the nickels.

 

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I think I will wait to after Christmas to look into my wallet.

 

I have $12 in my wallet. I would go to the bank, and open an account with $12. Then maybe 80 years of interest would allow me to have more then $12 in my wallet.

 

Don't forget, too, that in the 81 years between then and now, the USA has added nearly two full zeroes to the Dollar (using the price of gold as the constant, remember that the USA was still on the gold standard in 1930), so having even ONE $1 banknote in the wallet then was to be carrying REAL money around - daily commerce was almost entirely done using coins. So thus, the $140 in my wallet right now would be, assuming that the notes would be converted to equivalent face value 1930 notes, like me carrying over $10K in my wallet (or more likely an inside coat pocket) today.

Anyways, I would say "Screw the small change, give me seven Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles!".

:yes:

Mike

 

Why bring my own money, I'd go rob some banks with Bonnie and Clyde :smile JK

 

I have 165.00 in my wallet. I'd get 100.00 in silver dollars, 40.00 in half dollar rolls, 5.00 in cents, and 20.00 in dimes.

With all that, I probably would have some really nice coins today!

 

I'd take my $200 I have grab all the cents I could wrap my fingers around and search them, put the ones I don't want back, and repeat until I am satisfied, then do the same thing for those '16-D mercury dimes. Then I will grab as many WL halves I could get with what is left over.

 

First off...the scenario doesn't say if we get teleported back when we're done...or who, in 1930, is even gonna accept our 2011 zinc & clad crap!

However, if I could go back with some of my PMs (and a way to get back to 2011), I would be a "Roll Search'n Son of a Gun". I would be sitting out front of the bank...right between the guy with the tin cup and the guy selling apples...search'n my rolls. :fish:

 

No bills in my wallet, but a pocket full of Roosevelt dimes, Kennedy halves, and state quarters.

Now does anybody have any more money in their wallet to bail me out of jail for passing counterfeit money.

 

I was thinking of John Delorean and the fact that he went bankrupt.

 

I think Dr. Who may have something to say about all this ....... !!

 

...who?

 

Exactly!

 

But seriously, I'd take my $6, visit the UK (seeing as I'm from there), exchange to £ and then buy the newly-minted 1930 halfcrowns (rarest of that denomination since 1905). At $4=£1 at the time, I'd be able to get 12 such halfcrowns (8 to £1).

Huzzah!

 

wow, I havent been on CT in a few days. Our money would automatically change to the type they used in 1930.

 

Let's see, 1930? My dad was 15 and my mom was 9. If that were the case, then I wouldn't exist because I wasn't born until 1947.

Chris

 

I'd be trying to hook-up with May West.

 

I think Mae West was over rated.

 

W.C. Fields might disagree...

 

To the contrary. They hated each other's guts.

If I could teleport myself back in time, I might try to intercept most specimens of some not-particularly-uncommon coin just to watch it become a "great rarity", then dump it on the market at some point in the future to watch its "investors" panic.

Maybe I'll try it with the 1904-O Morgans.