Timewarp: Old Coin Prices

I have all the Red Books from the First Edition to present. Sure is scarry looking through them occationally at the prices. Way, way back there sure wasn't much interest in coin collecting at all. Of course remember very few coin books, no Albums just those folders, no plastic rolls, no TV advertisements because no TV, no internet due to computers not invented yet.
Although every one that looks in those old coin books at the prices forget how much people made back then too. For a few dollars you could come back from a store with a mountain of food. Hardly a loaf of bread today. A freind of mine, in 1956, bought a 56 T-Bird car for about $2,700. About the price of a really good set of tires and rims.
Yes coin prices were really cheap but then again, who could afford even that. There was a coin store a few blocks from me. In the window one day there was a dish of 10 Mercury Dimes and all 1916D. Price = $1.50 each. I purchased all of them and to this day I have no idea where I ever got that fortune to spend. Sounds like a great deal but that was in the early 40's somewhere and money just wasn't around at all. Could have bought groceries for weeks with that money.

 

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