I wish it was 1963 again!

I picked up this little coin book in my travels last week and thought I would share. It is dated 1963. My how times have changed. I realize the value of the dollar has changed considerably, but I couldnt help but drool over the collector board of BU Lincolns....1909 on....raw, uncertified, and all on a collector board. One could have probably put that set together for less than a similar 1909 S-VDB costs today!

 

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a 1932-S Washington Quarter for $75?
Count me in!

 

1913 Liberty Nickel - $50,000.

I'll take 5, please.

 

Sweet find! I used to do something similar with baseball cards when I was young, looking at older price guides and wishing I could have been there to take advantage. :eat: Anyway, if you find more, I'm sure we'd all love to see.

Thanks for sharing!

Chris

 

That tells me that you probably weren't born then, and certainly weren't over 5-6 years old!

 

Don't get too excited. In many cases, I bet these don't even keep up with inflation. The 1856 Indian Head, for example, is what, a $10k coin now? That's only a 2.4% annualized return. Frankly, that stinks.

Although I'd kill for that 1913 Liberty Nickel....

 

What about the 1950-D nickel? A -negative return after 45 years. That would hurt.

Just think! Ward Cleaver might have actually handled that book!

 

A quick check indicates that because of inflation on the average what cost $1 in 1963 costs $7 now.

 

A person could always have stocked up on keys and junk silver. Not a bad retirement plan.

 

We all dream about going back, but..

Remember that $75 1932 S was a lot of money when you only made $5,000 a year.
You probably couldn't have afforded it.
As for the $50,000 for that 1913 V-nickel, no chance, you could have bought a house for about $12,500. And it would have been a nice one. $50,000 was probably a near mansion. (or it seemed to be one back then, for that kind of money).


Go back?

Remember:

Very few people had color TV's.
No VCR's or DVD's.
No PC's.
No Internet.
No GPS.
No Cell Phones.
No Remotes to the TV's. (At least none that I ever heard of.)


But:
Gas was 19 cents a gallon.
Kennedy was President, and then he wasn't.
Vietnam was a word (and a place) that most had never heard of.
Ronald Reagan was still an actor, of sorts.
The KKK still had power.
There were riots in the streets over civil rights.




I think that I'll stay right here. The good old days? Or were they?

 

just remember ... the good old days of 50 years from ago... is today 50 years from now

 

F&@K the 60's Im going back back to 1909 to stock up on Idies, and wheaties

 

1964: I was the "change boy" at the local bank, a job for the new guy-me at 19 yrs. old. The Kennedy halves had just came out and I had them ALL. Sold them across the teller window for $12. a roll. Put together 2 Mercury sets(no16D) that I sold for $200. ea to make down payment on a 1965 Hot Dodge! Sold a similar set on ebay last week for $176. Life was certainly more simple then. lol

 

I seem to remember that the USA & Soviets had a thing going on & we had the kids in school practicing drop-drills. Also, collecting Cuban coins might have become a little awkward around that time.

Very best regards,
collect89

 

I would have just loaded up on junk silver from my change jar.. Kinda like what I do with copper pennies...

 

In 1963 I was in the military in Alaska.
They still used silver dollars for normal day-to-day purchases.
Being in the service, the pay wasn't very good ($180 a month).
But I had managed to save up about $325.

Here's the "What If".
What if when I left Alaska I had taken my savings in silver dollars rather than paper money?
For those old enough to remember the Hunt brothers and the silver spike about 1980, think about what I would have had.
Common date circulated silver dollars were going for about $50 each!
Do the math ($325 x $50 = $16,250).
In 1980 that was a LOT of money.
Could'a, should'a.
Oh well, missed that one.

 

If it was 1963 again I'd save as much $$$ as I could for 5 years and put it all on Namaths New York Jets !!!!!:kewl:

 

J e t ....

An opportunity to post this piece.

Very best regards,
collect89

 

Nice pieces......:bow::bow::bow:

 

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