And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, April 26, 2026
Man wins his weight in silver dollars in a Dr. Pepper contest (John Dominis. 1953)
2026 walking liberty silver dollars are available at silvergoldbull.com for $88 each. Today's spot price is $76/ounce so if you're buying bullion as an investment against inflation choose the Kangaroo or Maple Leaf at $80. Al_in_Ottawa
There weren't so many 200 lb dudes in 1953 as there are today. The price of silver was $0.85/ounce then. So that'd be about $2720 for the 1953 200 lb behemoth. $2720 after inflation would be $33,640. today. But if he'd held onto those 3200 silver dollars @ today's spot price of$76.42 he'd have 24,454. worth of silver. If he'd cashed it in and put it in a S&P 500 fund, he'd have over $6M today.
When I go to the supermarket, I use a debit card and ask for $20 cash-back. When the cashier, usually an 18-year-old high school student, asks: "How would you like it"? With a somber look I answer: "In 1955 Silver Dollars". 9 times out of 10 I get a bewildered stare as the kid grabs the store phone and says "Duty Manager to isle #15.
I won a pound of money when I was like 7. Local radio station & a used car lot down over the mountain sponsored it. It was about $1.36 in pennies & a wooden nickel. It probably cost my mom more than that in gas to go get the prize. Still have the wooden nickel somewhere.
I bought a few uncirculated Peace silver dollars at a good price awhile back. Cringe to think what they'd cost since the silver price surge just for the bullion value.
73 years later, no silver dollars or real sugar Dr. Pepper. FML
ReplyDelete2026 walking liberty silver dollars are available at silvergoldbull.com for $88 each. Today's spot price is $76/ounce so if you're buying bullion as an investment against inflation choose the Kangaroo or Maple Leaf at $80.
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For a 200 lb dood, today that would be about $200k.
ReplyDeleteThere weren't so many 200 lb dudes in 1953 as there are today. The price of silver was $0.85/ounce then. So that'd be about $2720 for the 1953 200 lb behemoth. $2720 after inflation would be $33,640. today. But if he'd held onto those 3200 silver dollars @ today's spot price of$76.42 he'd have 24,454. worth of silver.
DeleteIf he'd cashed it in and put it in a S&P 500 fund, he'd have over $6M today.
When I go to the supermarket, I use a debit card and ask for $20 cash-back. When the cashier, usually an 18-year-old high school student, asks: "How would you like it"? With a somber look I answer: "In 1955 Silver Dollars". 9 times out of 10 I get a bewildered stare as the kid grabs the store phone and says "Duty Manager to isle #15.
ReplyDeleteI won a pound of money when I was like 7. Local radio station & a used car lot down over the mountain sponsored it. It was about $1.36 in pennies & a wooden nickel. It probably cost my mom more than that in gas to go get the prize. Still have the wooden nickel somewhere.
ReplyDeleteI bought a few uncirculated Peace silver dollars at a good price awhile back. Cringe to think what they'd cost since the silver price surge just for the bullion value.
ReplyDeleteI still have a good collection of 1964 Kennedy half dollars from when I was a paperboy in the sixties. I keep them to barter with when the SHTF.
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