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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2458086, member: 19463&quot;]Yes.&nbsp; One thing we learn is that prices go up when the economy is good and go up some more when it is bad.&nbsp; The exceptions to this in my experience are two.&nbsp; Electronics (TV, computer etc.) and drinks.&nbsp; In 1950 my father bought a 19&quot; B&amp;W TV for $500 (then about a month&#039;s pay for him).&nbsp; Today that amount gets you 40&quot; flatscreen color and a month&#039;s pay for a minimum wage employee is double that.&nbsp; My first 286 PC was over $2000 and ran like a snail.&nbsp; Today, we get better for a fraction.&nbsp; When I was a kid, Cokes were a nickel (but I didn&#039;t have a nickel a lot of the time).&nbsp; Now Cokes are free.&nbsp; Al I have to do is place my order at the Wendy&#039;s counter ending with &quot;and a Senior Drink&#039;.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Worse than the price of replacement is some things never come back.&nbsp; In 1974, I sold my coins for $500 to Joel Malter.&nbsp; Included were fine examples of a Caligula sestertius, a Divus Pertinax denarius, a Decius double sestertius and about fifty other lesser coins.&nbsp; I have never seen one of those coins hit the market again.&nbsp; With enough money I could get other (maybe better) examples but let me know if you see any of those three for $500.&nbsp; You&#039;d thing the buyer would have tired of them by now and let me have a chance of correcting the error.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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