If you had only $100 to spend

I've been to their Bash, three times. If those people are in, you're golden.

 

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PM me Kirk... I don't need the equipment, but I could use some help on stuff if you're interested

 

I'm noodling the possibilities as I type, but one thing's for sure: with a $100 budget, I'm looking for one single coin as opposed to multiples. There isn't much available in multiple quantities for $100 able to keep my interest in the long term, unless they were pieces contributing towards a directed set, and that's not the interpretation I read into the original question.

The candidate coin will be reasonably liquid in its' grade - if Mint State examples get really pricey, the "average Joe" collector is shopping nice XF-AU and that's where I'm shopping. I'm not expecting investment-level appreciation, but simply safe parking for the money. That means hitting the sweet spot for demand down the road, not necessarily S-VDB levels of demand, but the space where what collectors there are of the series want to buy them.

I want it "nice at the grade" to the extent that I'll go a grade or two lower for a good one as opposed to "buying the slab." Eye appeal is of great importance, because the first priority is pleasing myself with what I've bought.

I'm probably looking towards the more common issues for a given series as opposed to the rarer ones. That way, I get a better grade, a nicer coin, and downstream appeal to both collectors of the series and typeset collectors, who will also usually be looking for "nice in the series."

Yes, obviously, resale is a stronger factor in my choice than it might be to the more "purist" collector. This is not because I feel I should use that consideration, but because I can use that consideration. Again excepting those concentrating on series collecting - and there's still overlap - there is no reason not to consider resale. In the vast majority of cases, factoring resale will not change the "bang for the buck" of your purchase, just possibly the amount of patience you'll have to apply to find the coin. And again, it's not about making money, it's about safely parking money. Nobody in their right mind plans on getting rich with coins.

Having typed that wall of text, thinking the whole time, it occurs to me that I don't really need to go shopping for that coin, because I already own it. So, somebody else can have the $100.

 

Love the coin, Dave. SUPER LOVE the answer!

 

Probably some later Roman Alexandria, Egypt Tetradrachms. You can get many for $100.

 

What a waste of time! Why would anyone want to go back in time when such an action would alter the future.

I would rather go into the future to a time when the Power Ball was at $500 million or so, get the winning numbers for one of the drawings that didn't produce a jackpot winner and then spend two dollars for the winning ticket the day before the drawing.

Chris

 

I like where (I think) this episode is heading

 

I've read that going backwards in time is theoretically impossible. Once that moment of time has passed there is no way to ever revisit that moment in person. It could be possible to view moments of time from the past by shooting a rocket faster than the speed of light with a telescope pointed backwards at the earth. Unfortunately travel above speed of light, telescopes that powerful, and the ability to relay those images do not exist.

Theoretically, we may be able travel forward in time via cryogenic preservation. There is also a relationship between speed and time which causes time to slow as speed increases. So, as a person nears the speed of light they experience time at a slower rate. Still, once expedited to the future, going backwards in time with the powerball numbers is not an option according to our current knowledge.

 

Random ATB 5 oz

 

Personally, at the moment I would purchase an 1851 o three cent in the nicest grade that I could obtain (as long as it had at least decent surfaces and no damage.) To be honest, I am probably going to purchase one at the Texas Numismatic Association Coin show in a week, nut it may cost more than $100.

 

This may not conform to the OP's original intent, but, frankly, I probably would set aside the $100 to add to a larger purchase later. I'm pretty good at not letting money burn a proverbial hole in my pocket.

 

the idea was to get ideas of what to purchase when given a budget of $100.

While I understand, it's not much, and the pickings are slim at this level, but that was the puzzle. What would you BUY?

 

Nah. It's just that the theories that allow it don't seem to offer any practical applications right now. (As in "you need negative energy density, which we have no idea how to produce".)

Or you can just march along with the rest of us at a steady pace of one second per second.

 

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Plus recommended/sponsored by a current member

 

so, you gonna sponsor me, Frank?

 

I printed out the form, too. I'm going to ask Dave Harper to sponsor me. As I "approach" retirement, I'm going to write a heck of a bunch more. Plus if Carl Waltz, Jr. doesn't publish his Matte Proof Lincolns by die state book, I may have to whoop him upside da' head.

 

sure, if you qualify.

 

well, I have been published as well as the publishing I do on and for our website, coinshowradio.com...

shouldn't that be enough?

 

I'm not disagreeing with anything you've said, but if a person was able to pretend that they could go backward in time, then there would be no reason why I couldn't pretend to go forward in time to provide an alternate possibility.

Chris