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Numismatic Limericks?
Coinosaurus
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This one is attributed to Frank Lloyd Wright:
I found in the News Numismatic
High pricing that made me ecstatic
on a mis-minted cent
Lincoln mangled and bent
like the ones I produce in my attic.
I found in the News Numismatic
High pricing that made me ecstatic
on a mis-minted cent
Lincoln mangled and bent
like the ones I produce in my attic.
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I can't remember the rest?
Edited to add... If I didn't procrastinate with the amount of the limerick to post, I would have beat SavoySpecial to the punch!
<< <i>let me go ahead and predict a 'Nantucket' posting... >>
You rang?
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There once was a girl from Nantucket
who got her foot caught in a bucket
Smoe people were thinking
Her 'Peace' was from Peking
Said she, 'it was dcarr who struck it'
edit typo.
Who thought he possessed much pull
He looked like the Sham-Wow
It's all such a Scam now
I"ll bet my PM box is full
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Hickory Dickory Dock,
Coin Drs. can suck my sock ( I lost one recently)
The coin was done
The Drs. will run
Hickory Dickory Dock.
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Who bought a 1964 DCarr
He thought it was sloppy
Not to have the word 'COPY'
So he traded it for a Les Paul Guitar
Edited to spell Gutar correctly!
Who recorded every penny he spent
He would squabble and squawk
And give you double talk
While trying to save a red cent
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appear so undramatically
until while under lights glow
all the colors of the rainbow
I just hope that it isn't AT
before food, before gas, before rent
When you get in a pinch
it can be fixed in a cinch
just give up those old coins for Lent.
Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
a gentleman slowly walking toward me
he nearly got to my table
poor guy didn't seem able
to get past the first case he see'd
my seat was by the window
and my seat-mate quite flatulent
soon made himself absent.
Never sit where the lavatory vent blows.
Who likes his coins blast white-O,
The tarnish he scorns,
And AT he mourns,
But smiles at a quick, clean Dip-O
Cheers, RickO
To buy coins none more finer
Turns out he bought from a faker
Oh, poor Longacre.
<< <i>A collector visited China
To buy coins none more finer
Turns out he bought from a faker
Oh, poor Longacre. >>
Humorous, but not a limerick.
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<< <i>A collector visited China
To buy coins none more finer
Turns out he bought from a faker
Oh, poor Longacre. >>
Humorous, but not a limerick. >>
I knew someone would say that. I've been to Limerick and got a waiver.
Who colored his coins in a tank
"If I just take the trouble
my money I'll double
And if you don't like it, go yank.
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who likes his coins whiter than new snow
the toned guys will yawn
and would rather pawn
any coin owned by the same kind of sicko.
but once at a coin show I did go
to a booth crowded by folks
sipping their $10 cokes
and bought an AT silver eagle
some were nice but only a few
While writing lots down
I developed a frown
There weren't enough lines for a haiku
all white and shiny wouldn't you know
It seemed obvious to me
the only happy atendee would be
someone who buys dipped coins like ricko
Ha. Another one. Sorry ricko, your name is just so rhymeable.
Keeps clicking on Reply
He pens poems with reckless abandon
That is our very own Brandon
That's all, Goodbye
Who served up copper eye candy.
Though his demeanor a bit gruff,
He was likeable enough.
Still considered by most to be dandy!
It's the collectors of those big 'ole busts
They think if their bust have CAC stickers
They'll be able to sell them on the BST quicker
Remember don't trust collectors who love busts
Who made his old coins green and blue.
He sent in to slab,
They came back in a bag,
So he told his lawyer to sue.
I think that I shall never see
A Presidential Dollar that's eye-appealing to me;
A Presidential Dollar whose creepy mug is pressed
Against a planchet, that's cheap-looking, at best;
A Presidential Dollar that doesn't circulate all day
Because most cash registers don't have room for them, anyway;
A Presidential Dollar that may on HSN seem
Like the rarest thing anybody has ever seen;
Upon whose edge date and mint mark were lain;
Who has a different President on it, again, and again.
Presidential Dollars are a failure, you see,
And that's why it takes a former President of the ANA to sell them on TV.
I'll either be back with some sizzling bit o' wit, or will forget and wander around in a daze the rest of the afternoon. At this point, the latter seems more likely.
That Bust dollar's bidding was strong
So I didn't hesitate long
I pulled the trigger
But didn't figger
On how it was made in Hong Kong.
Best I could do on short notice. Actually not so bad, if I do say so meself. Didn't think I had it in me at first.
Who dismissed unstickered coins as heresy.
She eschewed the dreck,
Couldn't spell worth a heck,
And had all the whales at her mercy.
'Til I bought some cleaned Seated and Bust;
and then did some shovin'
of coins in an oven
And baked up some nice rainbow crust!
I took all that fake tarnished junk
And being a con artist skunk,
I threw them today
On good old eBay
And sold them to some stupid drunk.
Too bad he's a dealer,
who hunts the "coin healers,"
So he never paid
For the toners I made
And turns out he's also a squealer!
So now I'm kicked off the Bay,
Until the middle of May,
For doctoring metal,
And trying to pedal
My shady fake rainbows all day.
No fear, this story's not done.
The coin posse just took Round 1.
With sulfur and putty,
And gold that looks cruddy,
I'll soon cook up more coin fun!
In her pendant was a proof princess dollar.
They grabbed at her neck,
'nuff to make you seck,
the poor girl couldn't even swaller.
I'll try ...
There once was a goddess named Liberty
who adorned most of our coins and some currency
but she disappeared over time
never again to grace a simple dime
and left us with dead presidents to fancy
“We are only their care-takers,” he posed, “if we take good care of them, then centuries from now they may still be here … ”
Todd - BHNC #242
Who wrote market reports with a flurry
She also penned Hot Topics
That some ate up like Hot Pockets
And had the PNG crying, Oh mercy
MJ
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Who's minions said was a bellyacher
He fawned over the Q
Who he barely knew
And worked for the man like a piker
MJ
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
"How much is a drink?" he enquires.
"It's a quarter for quenching your fires."
"Your charge is immense!"
"Well, okay — twenty cents,
'Cause a paradigm shift may bring buyers."
The mintmaster offered this pleading,
"It's Evelyn Wood that I'm needing.
My bosses allege
That I'm losing my edge,
And I'm falling behind in my reeding."
There once was a hobo named Bo
Who scrounged nickels wherever he'd go.
He'd make lovely designs
By carving in lines,
Which today sell for serious dough.
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I guess I found other subject areas much easier to mine for jokes. They are available for public view on OEDILF, if anyone cares. BTW, writing good limericks, which scan perfectly, rhyme perfectly, and amuse is not quite as easy as one might think. Many of the previously submitted limericks here suffer from deficiencies in at least one of these areas.
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who carried her coins in a bucket.
She'd forego her purple purse
as the lads were far worse
and knew they might not duck it.
Who realized raw coins downfall
If I put them in plastic
That would be fantastic
No longer can buyers lowball
"Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
Who loved his gold nice and dirty
Xrays would be read
But for the Steelers he bled
Mr. T he actually did pity
MJ
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
who would ride on his coin in a luge
his greed was so great
widows' gold he would take
and his heart was quite hardly huge
There once was fellow on the Forum
Who would buy holey coins and store em
I have so many he said
That he took up needle and thread
Sewed them to a vest and wore em
Ron
who rides to work on a Harley.
After visits by ghosts
and checking his posts.
he finds the gold from the boss quite gnarly.
Truly, I'm flattered.
<< <i>Why do I start this threads
Coinosaurus this is a fun thread and numismatic related. Even if we are old we can still have fun every now and then.
Thank you for a fun thread.
Ron
with his metal detector and bucket
in a field of wild scallions
he found this medallion
And now he truly doth Sucketh!
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Y'all are better at this than I am.
I wouldn't mind some wild scallions. They're might tasty in an omelet. I was telling ladymarcovan about how we had wild ramps in the backyard when I lived in NC. Know what ramps are? Basically one of those wild oniony kind of things.