When we got married in 1973, a friend gave us two dos pesos gold coins from Mexico. The coins were 1/2 inch in diameter compared to the US cent's 3/4 inch diameter. So, they are a very small coin. They had been sitting around doing nothing ever since. We are cleaning out and getting lean, so Marcia suggested we see what they were worth. We took them to a coin dealer in Greenville, and he gave us $120 for the pair. Gold is $1767 an ounce right now. In 1973 it was $100 an ounce. In 1973 these coins were worth about $3 each. If we could only set the Way-Back Machine and go back and buy up a bunch of these little coins.
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