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I imagine having a Time Machine would make collecting rare coins so much easier. You can just go to the past, buy something and look through your spare change for Indian head pennies or mercury dimes or three cent coins.

Doc: Technically true, but in actual fact you'd need money appropriate to the time period first in order to make your purchases so as to not cause confusion or be accused of counterfeiting and the like. So you'd likely have to collect some rare coins -- or, more accurately, rare bills -- before you could go back and make your purchase, depending on the time period you'd want to go to. Also you shouldn't be making frivolous purchases in the past in the hope of getting rare coins in your change anyway; you never know what might change the future.

Marty: But if you have to purchase something, then no harm in looking for neat stuff, right?

Doc: I guess not, but it's not behavior I'd like to encourage. Going to the past should be carefully planned sightseeing, not a romp around altering people's lives willy-nilly in small but potentially significant ways just because you want a special kind of penny.

#~M: I want some questions! now! (ask) #~M: grin without a cat (anon) #~V: Secundus #~T: We’re All Mad Here #time travel coin collecting #~C: Doc Brown #~C: Marty McFly #((Doc cares about the space-time continuum damn it #get outta here with your numismatism XD #I mean it's an interesting idea but as Doc points out #you might have to do some collecting BEFORE you get to the past anyway #...and now I'm really wondering where he got all the money he has in Part II in his briefcase #did he spend his time working on the time machine collecting all those bills? #did he get them in the future? #inquiring minds BTTF trilogy)) #~M: with this hand I will lift your queue