You have $500.

If for instance it would be possible to go back and acquire any coins in the past, it would change the present due to whoever now owns those coins would now not have them. Where, how, why and when they were acquired would now no longer be true. Possibly one of your relatives could have been involved in such a transaction which now never happened. They would have been doing something different which would have changed your family history and possibly making it so that your parents never had you. Then you didn't exist to go back and get those coins so it never happened so _____________

 

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I only said 1929, expecting 1928 currency, becasue sometimes banks don't have the new bills right away-- plus, They didn't have a 55 MPH speed limit on the Interstate for the $ to get there.. cuz there wasn't an Interstate!

Oh, yeah: Don't analyze this to death-- It's hypothetical.

 

Let's assume for a moment it wasn't hypothetical. What then? :goof:

 

I really like the Conferderate money idea. Since any check made out today would not be in accorcance with a earlier system at some banks. Then there always is the problem of the bank back then possibly not honering some other banks checks. However, with Conferate legal tender, the system could work. Now my next question is how come no one mentioned coming back to the present with the coins? If you were to suddenly begin selling valuable coins for lots of money the good old government, buyers,etc. would want to know where it all came from.
What I am now wondering is what if someone in the future actually had the ability to do this. What would happen to our collections and would we notice the dissapearance of something?

 

sorry - I was just throwing in some history.

I will have a better answer next time, I swear.

 

Actually if you went to a bank you would get 1912's or maybe buffalos. Even if you went to the mint you couldn't get 1913 Liberty head nickels. If you want those things try 1920, not 1913 and buy the whole set from Mr Brown. $500 is just about what he sold the whole set for.

Of course when you brought them back to today they wouldn't be worth all that much. A big part of the value of those coins are the stories behind them. The speculation over the past 90 years about how they were made, where they have been, all the hype by Max Mel that kept them in the limelight and made them a well known item in non-collector households around the world, the speculation over the missiing specimen etc. If you had bought them from Brown and then brought them back to today none of that would have occured, and they would probably just be curiosities today worth a few thousands or tens of thousands each. In fact without the history behind them you might even find yourself in conflict with the governement deciding to confiscate them.

Actually the Confederate currency idea might be the better way to go. But you go back to say the 1880's and buy up Unc notes then and bring them back to today. Back then no one was really interested in Confederate currency and you could buy bunches of Unc notes for one to ten cents apiece. Even less in bulk. Then you could com back to today with over 50,000 Unc Confederate currency notes that couls sell from $40 to several hundred dollars or more apiece. A rwo to ten million dollar return on your $500 investment.

 

I wouild go back to where the early commems were minted and start buyung the commems I had to sell from my father;s colelction.((

 

Unopened rolls of 1983-P quarters usually go for $300+ each. 15K+ return on $500 invested....not a bad return. And you wouldn't have to wait 100 years to realize it

 

OK now here is the real thing. You go back with the conferate money and buy clothing because you look like a freak with todays cloths. Then you rent a room near a USMint. Go to the Mint and get a job even if it's for less than anyone else so they would hire you. Then with knoledge of coins you slowly buy up everything that today would be worth large amounts direct from the Mint. You even offer them a little more for the coins than face value to asssure your purchase. You do this for a few years and take all these coins and put them in an air/water tight container. You add a will stating that all coins in this container are being left to the relative of a friend that will be living at the location where thses coins are buried. Knowing where you will be living in the present, you go there and burry the container many feet down in what will become your back yard. Bury it deep so as when they excavate for your house it will not be disturbed. Now back to the present you go out and dig up the container in front of witnesses that naturally would not be told of what you expect to find. You make up an excuse your going to make the deepest conpost pile you ever saw. Havae them even help with the promise of a bar-b-que for a reward. Then you fiind the container, open it, go to coin shows and sell everything, move to your own island and retire.