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Probably my collection of Magic: The Gathering trading cards, if I were to sell them these days. ;)

The best investment that I actually converted to cash was AAPL that I bought in 2009, and sold in 2015.

I sold my collection years ago for about $1000 altogether. I started playing during 3rd Edition, had 4 of each dual land, a handful of older cards, and 4 of pretty much every card worth a damn from ice age until around when 7th edition came out. I doubt that $1000 came close to even breaking even on how much I spent on the game. However, if I still had those cards today, it would be a very different story. I never considered the cards an investment, though. I just liked playing the game at the time.

I have a friend who dumped a lot of money into Apple just after the Enron scandal and held it there for a while - it turned out to be a great college fund for her son, as intended all along.

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