If you could go back in time

If you could go back in time lets say the year 1878 or pick your own year, and you had 100.00 to spend on any coin's you could bring back with you, what coin's would you get and why?
Carlacing:

 

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5 $20 Gold Pieces from the early 1800's so I could come back a wealthier man

 

I would go back to 1894 in San Francisco and ask the Mint superintendent if I would be able to purchase one of the 24 elusive dimes that they minted that year. Oh, and I would also warn him not to give his daughter one of the coins because she will spent it on ice cream (so the story goes...).

 

I would go back to 1834 and buy every 1804 dollar coin I could get my hands on and a couple of side arms from the period.

 

I would go in and out of banks all day long roll searching, then trading all the coin in for large bank notes, then roll searching again, ad infinitum...

Be sure to ask if they have any unusual coins or old French/Spanish/English colonials.

 

I'd go to 1797 for the following:
5 sets of a complete 1796 mint set (copper, silver, gold) at $19.415 ea.
1793 half cent
2 1794 silver dollars
1797 half dollar
1793 Chain Ameri. large cent
1793 Chain America large cent
1793 Wreath cent
1793 Capped Bust large cent

and I'd spend the other 40¢ on lunch and a beer

 

1793. As a copper collector, that's the year of the really cool ones.

 

1989, I'd give myself a bunch of coins I want to tone. "Fastest" way to tone.

 

I'd go back to 1933 and use the $100 to rent several "ladies of the evening" to entertain the guards, while I ran off with a wheelbarrow of double eagles.

 

i would buy off people then become president. Then i would implant my face into every coin so the future collectors can remember me

 

I'd buy a gun and hire a buddy to help me rob the James gang

edit: olny because I could spend a 100 $ in ancient Rome :/

 

I'd like to go back in time just to get out of this over-populated modern mess we're in now. But if it was just to spend a 100 bucks I'd say 1870 and just pick up what I could at no extra cost...

 

I wanna say 1894 as well, so I could buy a few of the 1894-S Barber dimes. Then 1933 for the '33 Double Eagle. Then 1794 for the Silver dollar. And maybe 1909 to collect the '09-S VDB and '09 VDB Proof.

 

Since my greatest numismatic passion is the Morgan dollar, I would like to be able to go back to each and every year and Mint from 1878 to 1904 to purchase one of each Morgan in mint state and proof. I wouldn't care if they graded MS64 or MS68 or PF64 or PF68. Just to have a complete set would be all I'd need.

Chris

 

If a person could go back in time and spend $100, and this was limited to the past 100-150 years, I would say the best purchase probably would be small denomination coins in BU purchased at face value. 10,000 BU cents most years you bring you the most money today, unless there is a rare issue that year, like a 16d dime and 16 SL quarter, 1901s quarter, etc. Short of that, BU pennies!

 

As many 1849 Gold Pieces I could get

 

Listen everybody, this has been a fantasy of mine for a long time. I'd just like to go back a couple of weeks at a selected time like 10:00am on any day of my choosing. Before that time I 'd write down as many different winning lottery numbers as I wanted and then buy as many as I could. What I would do is buy like ten winning tickets in a lotterty so that I would have ten parts out of eleven if there was only one other winner. I also would distribute as mas winning tickets as I could to relatives, churches, charities, like Disable American Vets, St. Judes, Salvation Army, Red Cross,etc. . Or even sponsor as many deserving vets and kids as I could to ensure they had a better life than the one they started out with.
Any way you get the idea. I'd have enough money to really have great coin and currency collections and have fun doing it too.
If the governments tried to prove that I did something illegal they'd be hard pressed to find out how To do it.. Especially if I told them the truth about being able to go back in time once.. Who would believe it? Even lie detectors couldn't prove me wrong. I don't think there is a precedent for as situation like this either. Yah I know, I wouldn't have a moments peace for a while but I would have to live with it.
There's all kinds of senarios to this fantasy as you can see..................zeke

 

So many years to choose from, but I will go with 1916 in Denver, Colorado to obtain 1,000 1916-D Mercury dimes for $100 face value in gem BU+ condition. TC

 

What a lot of people seem to forget about on things like this is that if they brought back a lot of the rare date pieces they chose, that they would then become much commoner date coins. The 1933 double eagle is so valuable because of it's story and because there is currently only one legal specimen. Bring back a wheelbarrel full of them and they are just another scarce date. Or the 1000 BU 16-D dimes. Yes they will still be a scarce and desired date, but the price for a MS piece will come way down. Those who spread out their haul over several different rarities would do better because they would have less effect on the prices when they came back.

Others have possibly not considered that for the coins they are after they would have to go back to a specific time in the year or at a later time than they are considering. Go back to 1834 for an 1804 dollar and you won't get one. The ones they had were earmarked for Diplomatic sets and even after the two sets came back from the first mission the mint still didn't admit to having them until 1842. For the 1894 S dime if you go early in the year they hadn't made them yet, but go too late in the year and they were already gone. Even then you would have done better asking the coiner about them than the Director. For the very early coins the problem would have been that there was no centralized banking system for dispersing the coins so just trying to locate them would have been a problem. For the copper coins you might be able to go to the mint and get them, if they haven't already shipped them out to some bank that ordered them. But for silver or gold coins you would either have had to deposit metal with the mint and wait for it to be coined, or you might try the Bank of the United States since most of the gold and silver coins went to them. But them you are back to getting your timing right. If you wanted a 1794 dollar you would have to talk to Director Rittenhouse because the entire mintage went to him. Want a 1792 half disme, try and wheddle one out of Thomas Jefferson because he had all of those.

Even going a few years after a group of coins were made provides problems. Go to the late 1790's and try and pick up a bunch of the early cents? try finding them. At that time there was less than one US coin per person in the country. Trying to get a group of them together could be a problem.

 

Why not go back to 1909 and buy 10,000 1909 S VDB cents. That would be the biggest bang for the buck. I'd be very rich.......