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How strange. a coin that had an original mintage of 484,000 had been listed on ebay almost 2,000,000 times. I am of course refering to the 1909 S VDB. Not coincidentally, this is the most faked coin in the world. Be careful when buying this year and mint of Lincoln Cent!

Assume you had placed $10,000 into 3-month U.S. Treasury Bills at the beginning of 2002. At the end of five years, the buying power of your money would have decreased by -$116.19, or -1.2%, when taking inflation into account. If instead you had used $5,000 to purchase gold and silver ($2,500 each) and put the other $5,000 into 3-month U.S. Treasury Bills, your buying power would have increased by $5,977.28, a gain of 59.8%.