You have $500.

Okay, you have a $500 check that you can cash at a bank. You choose one year between 1895 and 1995. What year do you go to and how do you cash the check?
I go to 1929 for the purpose of red seal dollar bills! To annoy the 1920's hell :mouth: out of a bank teller,
I ask for 100 rolls of pennies, ($50)
25 $2 bills ($50)
50 $1 bills ($50)
10 $5 bills ($50)
5 $10 bills ($50)
3 $20 bills ($60)
1 $50
1 $100
5 $2 rolls of nickels ($10)
5 $5 rolls of dimes ($25)
And 3 halves and 2 dollar-coins.

That's just me.

 

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Interesting time to pick, my friend. If I were you, I would go back to 1928, because if you tried to go to a bank in 1929, you would find quite a line indeed - they were known as the bank runs, and if you were lucky enough to get cash from a bank, you were in the front of the line, and you took what you got!

 

I'd go back to 1895, and go to sanfrancisco. I'd buy 500 morgan dollars, hoping for uncirculated 93's and 95's, and sure even 94's.

 

I would go back to 1983 and get $500 in quarters.

Charlie

 

I'd go to 1933 and pick up a few double eagles, hopefully at face value. Then I'd take the rest of the money and buy real estate, mainly in California. I think that would be a decent deal for me.....

 

Exactly, except I'd be in New Orleans. Last week, an 1895-O in MS62 went for $32,200 at Heritage.

 

I already have an 1895-o, but no 1893 or 95 s. : ( My 1895-o is pretty crappy though. At the very least, we could trade : ) after our time travel

 

Regardless of where you go back in time you would probably end up in jail. Just where would you get a check from a bank back then? Where would you get a check made witht the paper from back then? Whoes account would that check be taking money out of anyway? Now if that was possible and you somehow could bring it all back to the present, what would have happened to the people that presently own those coins?

 

I have the solution!

First, right now, I'd buy $500 face value of Confederate paper currency. That's pretty inexpensive (comparatively), right?

Then I'd go back to 1861 in the south, and use my paper currency to buy uncirculated coinage (US coinage still sitting in southern banks). Problem solved!

 

Better yet. Don't bother buying the Confederate currency.

Go back to 1800, and bring with you.... pop cans. Well, not pop cans exactly, but pop cans melted into aluminum ingots, as much as you could carry. Back then, before the smelting techniques for aluminum were developed, it was considered to be more valuable than gold. Sell the bars to various royal families in Europe and use the profits to purchase coinage.

 

Come on guys, a little off the subject.

I'd go back to 1938, and get 500 dollars in nickels. :thumb:

 

Fun Question.....

I'd probably go back to 1895 and purchase Double Eagles. I'd try to get S and O mint marks. Morgans would be my second choice.

 

I'd go to Denver in 1916, and load up on shiny new dimes. I might also look for a few 1899 $2 and $5 Silver Certificates

 

I'm going west in 1901 and gonna get as many Frisco quarters as i can! I might get a few dimes, halves, and dollars just so I have the set, but mostly i want those quarters.

 

I'd go back to 1909 and look for as many of the S-VBD cents as I could find. Then I'd just waste the rest on nickel beer.

Also, regarding one of the posts above, I don't think there were bank runs in 1929. They came later.

 

I would go back in time to 1993 San Francisco

I would present myself at the mint and I would purchase 500 dollars of 1893-S morgan Dollars.
It's a great fantasy.....
Today, I would rather find old turn of the century homes and search them. Imagine, the old finds....one might encounter.

 

There were some good choices I liked the 1901, 1909, also the 1916 (you may want some 1916 quarters besides those Denver dimes. I would go to 1913.

First I would get 5 Liberty nickels
Then I would get the rest in quarters (1913-s)

That would give me the total populaion of Liberty nickels
and 5% of all the 1913-s barber quarters.

 

What?

 

Before October there would be no bank runs

 

I would go back to late 1909 to San Franciso.

I would pick up a $100 worth (10,000) looking for 1909-S VDB's in MS Red condition, 1877 Indians, Flying Eagles

$200 worth Morgans looking for the 1893-S Morgan and others

$200 worth Double Eagles hoping for the 1907 High Relief