
IN MY LIFETIME…
Cost of Common Goods in 1968 (when I was ten years old)
1968 2019
Gas 34 cents $2.35
New car 2,855 34,000
First class stamp 6 cents 55 cents
Comic book 12cents 2.50
Candy bar 10 cents 99 cents
Minimum wage 1.60 8.46
Soda 15 cents 99 cents
Gallon of milk 1.07 3.27
Six pack of beer 1.87 5.79
Ounce of silver 2.25 18.45
Ounce of gold 43.50 1545.00
On average the 1968 items cost about eight times more money than today. So you see it makes no sense at all to hang on to uninvested cash in any form. At All American Coin we can help you invest that hard earned cash into precious metals that will keep up with the pace of inflation to secure your money for retirement or for your children’s inheritance.