Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cringely, post: 817012, member: 22271&quot;]Originally Posted by Ahab </p><p>Sorry Cringely, I don&#039;t know where you got your info from but the S&amp;P has done considerably better than 7.8%. See:</p><p><a href="http://www.simplestockinvesting.com/...al-returns.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.simplestockinvesting.com/...al-returns.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.simplestockinvesting.com/...al-returns.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not wanting to get into a nitpicking war, but I chose a time period commensurate with the identical 60 year time period used in Dave Bower&#039;s <u>A Guide Book of United States Type Coins</u> (1st ed.).</p><p><br /></p><p>In response to picking the start and stop points, if they are more than a decade or two apart, I doubt that you&#039;ll see huge (much more than a few %) differences in the S&amp;P 500 or any index that truly reflects the &quot;market mix&quot; (theoretically one share of every stock traded).</p><p><br /></p><p>I chose the 1946-2005 time period because I was lazy and Bowers had done the hard work:hammer: of determining pricing of US Type Coins with a start date of 1946, the (actual) year that the 1st edition of the Redbook was published.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that there is a 2nd edition of <u>A Guide Book of United States Type Coins</u>, any CoinTalk member is more than welcome to repeat my calculations over a different time period.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in