A 91,300 % return on investment!
That's what long-term investor Walter Childs received on his original $5,000 collection of rare coins at auction. During his lifetime John Jay Pittman, an employee at Kodak in Rochester New York, spent almost $31, 218 on gold coins. His collection sold in 1997 for $3.8 million. The best tale of all is Baltimore banker Louis Eliasberg who spent $400,000 on coins, receiving over $30,000,000 when he eventually sold.
