> > I'm a time traveler. I've been doing it all my life. I've learned that it's a one-way street. You can only move forward in time. I started time traveling in 1933 and I'm already up to the 21st century! It has really been a trip! I'm going to try to invent reverse traveling so I can go back to "my time." The trouble is that I can't decide which time was my time. Probably the 50' when I went through high school and college. But I was really poor then and I don't want to go back to that unless I can take a little pocket money. The exchange rate for reverse time travel is really good. A dollar won't buy much now, but take it back to the middle of the 20 century, and you could have a whoopin' good time on a buck. Let's see. Movie 35 cents, gallon of gas 28 cents, Coke, 5 cents, candybar 5 cents. . . . I've still got money left.
> > On the other hand, if you travel forward in time, your present day dollars aren't going to be worth much. Hmmmmmmmm. Maybe Euros. Naw, that won't work. As much as I enjoy forward time travel, reverse time travel sounds better.
> > Howard
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> Nonsense. If you go forward in time a few hundred years a present-day dollar bill would be worth a few quid to the right collector. And if you go back in time you need to be really careful that you check the years on all your money. Othwise you end up being arrested as a very stupid counterfeiter. And that can be embarrasing, believe me.
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> wintermute

I never was a very smart counterfiter.

Collectors will pay well for only a few rare items of currency and coins. The rest is mostly valuable as a curiosity. I have lots of coins and a few bill dating back 50 to 150 years and very little of it is "rare."

Now let's see; a quid is somewhat like a buck, right?
Howard