If you could go back in time...

I did think about that too. As a collector I am sure some of us have paper currency of the past, and/or junk silver coins as well. That being said one could just exchange the paper currency and "junk" silver coins for shiny new pieces.

 

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I would make counterfeit colonial coinage. Lol

 

Plate junk silver ingots in gold..... lol

 

Well I meant to go back and get a roll of mintstate 1794 flowing hair dollars.

 

Well to be fair, it wouldnt be stealing it back it would be reclaiming property since it was illegal to steal from the mint in the first place.

 

i would go to 1982 and stop the mint from making the dime missing the P mint mark so i wouldnt have to find it for my dime collection

 

This Thread reminds me of the film Timecop. The open scene when the guy robs the Confederate wagons of those gold coins. You can watch it on youtube.

 

No kidding!

 

Yeah, go back in time and grab that roll of 1916-D dimes Pupa died with.:rollling: Oh, and since I never really believed that thread I think I'd just go back to the day the US Mint minted the 6 or so Lincolns in 1943 and I'd be happy with one copper 43.

http://www.cointalk.com/t32242/

 

There's a easy solution for this. Take own silver and gold bullion back with you. Back in the early days of the mint private individuals could take in their own gold and silver and have it struck into coins. Easy-peasy

 

I'd bring a Polaroid camera to the Frossard
auction where Ed Frossard and Lyman Low
had a fistfight/wrestling match over the
Strawberry Leaf cent. Then I'd see what each
had in their inventory to trade. I'm guessing
the loser would be very eager to trade.

Next would be John Reich and his "fat mistress."
:devil:

 

There are a few older threads on CT that are classics. I remember this one well, and it is definitely a classic. Thanks for the memories, fretboard!

 

I would go everywhere and bring them all back.

 

I'd look up all the coins for which there are high mintage numbers, but few known survivors. That way I'd avoid paradoxes -- "there were few known survivors because some time-traveler came and snatched them all up!"

Hey, my test run with the 1903-O Morgans worked out great...

 

So you take roll of 1903-0 Morgans back a few
years before the treasury raids and
and trade it it for rarties?

 

I'd go back to 1964 with thousands of 1957 silver certificates and buy a boatload of silver dollars.

 

At least you would try and minimize paradox. What would happen is any change we made in the past here would have their effect (butterfly or greater).

Anyway, not to make this whole thing complicated, I have read some very good and interesting responses. My final answer is the 5 1913 Liberty Head Nickels. Sell 3 for $15,000,000.00 (or more I daresay), keep 2, and use the rest to build a really nice and diverse collection (live nicely and help others , of course).

 

When they come up a Quatum Entanglement Czar,
we're all going to charged with insider information.

 

Tough choice, since the history of every example is documented save for one of them its a little blurry from the 60's to the 2000's.

To avoid a paradox, how about concentrate on something like a 1878s half dollar and then just never sell them? Same could work with any date with low survivorship. They were never on the marketplace since you have them. Sell one every decade to keep prices sky high.

 

Maybe sell every 5 years to keep cash flow going.