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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1996409, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;m not so sure.&nbsp; It depends on just how we distort statistics.&nbsp; After all, you can prove anything with statistics properly misused.&nbsp; I have a very few coins that I bought in the sixties but they are hardly what you would call high quality.&nbsp; What I bought for $13.50 in 1963 would bring $135 today but that same year a house in high quality parts of town cost 1/10 as much as today and 90% silver dollars were available at the bank for $1.&nbsp; Figuring profits is complicated.</p><p><br /></p><p>Along the way, there have been a few bumps in the road where coin prices took a hit along with the fortunes of the likes of Bruce McNall and the Hunts but all that just requires that you did not jump off the roller coaster when it was moving.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m also not so sure that coins were easier to get back then.&nbsp; A great number of the slabbed pieces of perfection we see today were still underground in the 60&#039;s before we had metal detectors and normalized relations with several nations of Eastern Europe.&nbsp; If I had one wish in coins it would not be for a proof EID MAR but for the ability to look at any coin and tell its provenance back to when it emerged from the ground.&nbsp; I&#039;m not in this for the money but would love to know what happened to the coins that I sold for $500 in 1974.&nbsp; I&#039;d pay $10,000 today to get them back but I&#039;m just a sentimental old fool.&nbsp; They were just F-VF then but some may have been improved - who knows?</p><p><br /></p><p>In the old days we only had a chance of provenance on &#039;super&#039; coins since nothing else was photographed and many were sold as group lots.&nbsp; Can you convince yourself that you would have made more on that EID MAR bought in &#039;the day&#039; than on a few square feet of high quality real estate that same year?&nbsp; I have had more fun out of my coins but they are not high grade so they are worth only about as much more as my money is worth less.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was a boy, Cokes were a nickel but I didn&#039;t have a nickel so I didn&#039;t have a Coke. Today, many places give me a free Senior drink so I don&#039;t even have to use my nickel to get a Coke.&nbsp; These are the good old days![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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