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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Fullbands, post: 26423774, member: 7437&quot;]This topic definitely got me to thinking.&nbsp; I kinda knew how this was going to go, but I decided to play with the numbers anyway just to see the actual outcome.&nbsp; Which is approximate anyway but enlightening for sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1988 I decided I needed to bite the bullet and acquire the 16-D dime necessary for the complete Winged Liberty set I was building at the time.&nbsp; I had so far held all the coins in the set to a floor of F-12 or better (now many upgraded to Unc.) and I committed to stay at that level through all the keys too.&nbsp; I forked out $1200 for an NGC VF-20 1916-D.&nbsp; Made me nervous to pay that much for a tiny little circulated dime.</p><p>Fast forward to today 37 years later using the PCGS price guide as a relative indicator, the coin is somewhere in the $4000 range.&nbsp; Give or take.&nbsp; Not to shabby eh?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I found one of those online stock market calculator things (I can&#039;t vouch for their accuracy either) and played around with how much money I would have today with an initial investment of $1200 in 1988.</p><p>If I had bought:</p><p>Ford Motor Co. = $8,500</p><p>Deere &amp; Co = $61,000</p><p>Apple = $983,000</p><p>Coca Cola = $1.8M</p><p><br /></p><p>Key dates will always appreciate, but only to the level a hobbyist would accept. Don&#039;t expect anything else.&nbsp; You want to make money, do it the old fashioned way and invest over the long haul. Make your money work for you.&nbsp; My dime has returned me $75.67 each year I have owned it.&nbsp; Lousy investment.&nbsp; Still glad I pulled the trigger and kept the set at my self imposed quality limit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rick L.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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