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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 696741, member: 13650&quot;]This was an interesting topic.&nbsp; I track a lot of stuff but this sounds impossible.&nbsp; Even if there was a way to pick out a real number for inflation.&nbsp; I know it&#039;s somewhere between 3 and 10% in a given year.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then you&#039;d have to figure it out going back to different time periods as things were purchased throughout the years.&nbsp; &nbsp; Way too much.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; I think it&#039;s been said before that if anything&#039;s value is able to keep up with inflation, that&#039;s not necessarily doing bad.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;Whatever inflation has done, all I know is there were coins that were obtainable to most in the 50s, which are not obtainable to nearly everyone today.&nbsp; &nbsp; I have to believe $145 would be easier to come up with in the mid 50s for a high relief MS St. Gaudens than it is to come up with $20k today.&nbsp; &nbsp; I realize $145 would have been a lot of money back then as well.&nbsp;&nbsp; But it wasn&#039;t half a year&#039;s salary.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; If you buy a coin for $25 today and it&#039;s worth $100 in 10 years, reguardless of the reason for the price increase, it was better than putting the $25 in the bank at 1%.&nbsp;&nbsp; So I guess the inflation factor doesn&#039;t mean that much to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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