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nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
There once was a coin named Morgan,
who practiced on the church organ
She let out a shudder
when she heard someone mutter
'bout a timeshare in Oregon

There once was a coin from nantucket
Stored for years in a bucket
It acquired lots of tone
Yet the luster thru it shone
And all the blast white people said yucket
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  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139
    T'was a new collector named Ray
    Bought a dealer's dream lot on eBay
    PCGS in the pics
    But not one in his mix
    And now a neg in Ray's feedback, hooray
    Select Rarities -- DMPLs and VAMs
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I once found a coin in the dirt.
    just beneath a gal in a skirt
    Sent it in to be graded and I sat there and waited...
    she replied : " POP 1 ? yer a jerk" image

  • I once had a circulated Bustie,
    Toned grey and decidedly crusty;
    Alas 'twas "no grade"
    In a bodybag, I'm afraid;
    But I found her nonetheless lusty !!

  • InYHWHWeTrustInYHWHWeTrust Posts: 1,451 ✭✭✭
    Ok, here's a go at it...

    Barber's Liberty, Most say, looks androgenous,
    So they claim ol' Charles was misogynous,
    But I say he knew,
    Though professing admirers be few,
    That the truth is: Most find her erogenous!


    Don

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    Do your best to avoid circular arguments, as it will help you reason better, because better reasoning is often a result of avoiding circular arguments.
  • xbobxbob Posts: 1,979
    When after some cash that I spent
    I saw in my change was a cent
    1909S obverse
    VDB on the reverse
    a great find in any event!

    (not a true story btw - I wish though)
    -Bob
    collections: Maryland related coins & exonumia, 7070 Type set, and Video Arcade Tokens.
    The Low Budget Y2K Registry Set
  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Those are some great ones!
  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    Jack & Jill ran up the hill
    To fetch a State Quarter
    Jack fell down & broke his crown
    And the Mint cancelled his order
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • lkrarecoinslkrarecoins Posts: 2,137 ✭✭✭
    There once was a canny young numismatist named Rusty,
    Who set out to complete a grading set full of Busty,
    One day a seller from China, slipped him a shiner,
    And now he's stuck with a fake that is Crusty image

    In Loving Memory of my Dad......My best friend, My inspiration, and My Coin Collecting Partner

    "La Vostra Nonna Ha Faccia Del Fungo"
  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Mint made a reverse proof
    The prices shot up threw the roof
    Then came first strike
    The grading services did like
    It's got us all acting like a goof
  • I just wanted to bump my post count.
    "Everyday above ground is a good day"

  • i once found a coin in nantucket.
    know what you don't know.

    hi, i'm tom.

    i do not doctor coins like some who post in here.

  • When invited to make up a rhyme
    If afforded a moment of time,
    I confess that I'd rather continue to gather
    The beautiful Mercury dime.

    image
    "Coin collecting problem"? What "coin collecting problem"?
  • I'm surprised that so many members don't know what a limerick is!

    Five lines, people! First, second and fifth rhyme with each other
    third rhymes with the fourth.


    I am not an English major.

    Moderators on the coin forum
    Said, "What we need is some decorum!"
    So they took some of the members
    Who were flaming like embers
    And they then decided to floor 'em
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    Proud recipient of two "You Suck" awards
  • Some of these are pretty darned funny ......now I am just waiting for the first PCGS or David Hall related one image
  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    A diller, a dollar, an ebay powerseller
    What makes you sell so high?
    You used to sell without a reserve
    Now your prices are at the moon.
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,482 ✭✭✭

    a lad tossed in a wishing well a new dime
    it was of all things in denver of 1916 time
    many years later a bright new light shines
    so with diving gear on he now down climbs
    in that wishing well that still to him chimes
    how i wish it was me comitting such crimes


    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Tis is a man named David Hall
    Bag on PCGS and heads will fall
    Some posters can't see the trees for the forest
    Even with most of us singing in chorus
    Now plenty of bammed members will squall.
  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    David Hall is in the dell,
    David Hall is in the dell,
    Hi-ho, the derry-o,
    David Hall is in the dell.

    David Hall takes a coin,
    David Hall takes a coin,
    Hi-ho, the derry-o,
    David Hall takes a coin,

    The coin takes a slab,
    The coin takes a slab,
    Hi-ho, the derry-o,
    The coin takes a slab.

    The slab takes a grade,
    The slab takes a grade,
    Hi-ho, the derry-o,
    The slab takes a grade,

    The grade is on the insert,
    The grade is on the insert,
    Hi-ho, the derry-o,
    The grade is on the insert,

    The insert says PCGS,
    The insert says PCGS,
    Hi-ho, the derry-o,
    The insert says PCGS,
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • At Heritage, Fletcher purchased a sixty-six
    He thought that he knew all the tricks
    The Fugio that he did score
    Turned out to be really sixty-four
    Poor Fletch thinks he can grade from pics.
  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,482 ✭✭✭
    there was a kid who liked to play hackie
    with this cute gurl he liked named jackie
    he opened a cereal box to find a new sackie
    he now cries i wished someone had slapped me
    when jackie had asked in her way all too sappy
    can i have please as it will make me very happy


    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


  • Forgive me Adrian and Brandon......image


    There once was a rainbow peace dollar
    That caused PCGS forum member to holler
    Adrian wasn't stressing
    Cause NGC gave it it's blessing
    but the forum police still made their collar

    image
  • gyocomgdgyocomgd Posts: 2,582 ✭✭✭
    An ambitious young gal named Mandy
    Said "I think I can make me 12 grandy!"
    She cracked the Saint from its holder
    Said "You're scared but I'm bolder"
    When it came back she moved into a shanty.
    image
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    I've been racking my brain trying to come up with one about Marty, and have now concluded that I suck at limericks.

    Russ, NCNE
  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    <<<I've been racking my brain trying to come up with one about Marty, and have now concluded that I suck at limericks.

    Russ, NCNE>>>

    Martyfarty, puddin' and pie,
    Choked his chicken and made it die.
    He butchered it with his own little hand,
    Turned it into a huge rubber band.

    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Martyfarty, puddin' and pie,
    Choked his chicken and made it die.
    He butchered it with his own little hand,
    Turned it into a huge rubber band. >>

    That's not a limerick. It's a quatrain. image

    Anyway...

    The Mad One sent coins to be traded
    To services where they'd be graded.
    Results he would hate --
    AU-58 --
    Have left him dejected and jaded.
  • gyocomgdgyocomgd Posts: 2,582 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I've been racking my brain trying to come up with one about Marty, and have now concluded that I suck at limericks.
    Russ, NCNE >>



    Russ sold a large Kennedy lot
    To Marty --"Top dollar! They're hot!"
    But Marty was Mad,
    And upon speaking he said:
    "Are these holed, or was Kennedy shot?"
    image
  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    How the L am I sposed to know the difference between a limerick & a squatrain?
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    I knew you guys would come through. image

    Russ, NCNE
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    There once was a numismatist named rusty
    Who, inside his shoe kept his busties
    While sitting in bed
    An idea popped into head
    Now that's why my collection seems musty

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  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
    I saw a raw coin that looked nice --
    On eBay, which made me think twice.
    The seller's from China,
    Not North Carolina --
    I'm passing no matter the price.


  • << <i>At Heritage, Fletcher purchased a sixty-six
    He thought that he knew all the tricks
    The Fugio that he did score
    Turned out to be really sixty-four
    Poor Fletch thinks he can grade from pics. >>




    image


  • krankykranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭
    Ah, got beat to the punch but now that it's done...

    If contained in a coinseller's wares
    Are unattributed Accented Hairs,
    Watch as Russ and MadMarty
    Rush to the party.
    "You suck!" is what the loser declares.

    New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.

  • WaterSportWaterSport Posts: 7,030 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My turn

    There once was a boy name Pete.
    Who had a passion for collecting Matte Wheat’s
    He bought all he could
    Some in plastic, some no good
    But everyone he did keep.
    Proud recipient of the coveted PCGS Forum "You Suck" Award Thursday July 19, 2007 11:33 PM and December 30th, 2011 at 8:50 PM.
  • PistareenPistareen Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭
    Piles of coppers all over the place
    Cataloguing at a breakneck pace
    But when my nose itches
    and prompts finger twitches
    I end up with brown streaks on my face
    John Kraljevich, Director of Numismatic Americana, Stack's Bowers Galleries
  • Coin Forum was in such a huff,
    Smoe members were making a fuss
    Conder went away
    Mark has nothing to say
    And the limericks silenced Russ
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  • ArtistArtist Posts: 2,038 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I've been racking my brain trying to come up with one about Marty, and have now concluded that I suck at limericks. >>



    There once was guy named Mad Marty,
    who brought quite a lot to the party,
    known for slick cherrypicks, and a fake rubber chick,
    and manly coin I'd describe as arty.
  • StrikeOutXXXStrikeOutXXX Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Through thousands of proof sets Russ searched with despair
    But his holy grail Kennedy just wasn't there
    Scoured Teletrade, Heritage, and the bay of "e"
    Sweet god Marty better not get one before me
    All I want for Christmas is a PR69DCAM Accented Hair
    ------------------------------------------------------------

    "You Suck Award" - February, 2015

    Discoverer of 1919 Mercury Dime DDO - FS-101
  • Fletcher likes to buy coins on the bay of E
    On his first win he refused to pay the fee
    He was moaning and pissing
    While another coin was missing
    Until he screwed over BigD
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Through thousands of proof sets Russ searched with despair
    But his holy grail Kennedy just wasn't there
    Scoured Teletrade, Heritage, and the bay of "e"
    Sweet god Marty better not get one before me
    All I want for Christmas is a PR69DCAM Accented Hair >>



    Best one yet!

    Russ, NCNE
  • 66RB66RB Posts: 2,516 ✭✭✭
    He looked through all the Kennedy's he got,
    And, more or less, turned into a robot,
    Slouching in his chair, peering and squinting,
    Half-dollar sized coins, shiny and glinting,
    Ultimately, he found it, the Kennedy 'Dot'
  • MrScienceMrScience Posts: 783 ✭✭✭
    There once was a pressman named Bill
    Who added some leaves for a thrill
    He punched the start button
    Then lunched on some mutton
    And now the mint director is ill
  • imageimage

    I once went out to find an Ike
    A proof, one that I`ll like
    got a group of GSA
    which they are still in today
    and this is why " I Like Ike ! " image
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭


    << <i>He looked through all the Kennedy's he got,
    And, more or less, turned into a robot,
    Slouching in his chair, peering and squinting,
    Half-dollar sized coins, shiny and glinting,
    Ultimately, he found it, the Kennedy 'Dot' >>



    Another superb effort!

    Russ, NCNE
  • razzlerazzle Posts: 998 ✭✭✭
    Fun reading.

    There once was a metallic blank,
    Who envied his kin at the bank.
    But, to become a coin,
    He had to "loin"
    'Bout presses and dies...so he drank! image
    Markets (governments) can remain irrational longer than an investor can remain solvent.
  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I've been racking my brain trying to come up with one about Marty, >>



    Beware of the man with the rubber chicken
    He has come to your table for cherrypick'n
    His looks are quite decieving
    With your best coins he will be leaving
    Afterwards your own butt you will be kick'nimage
  • razzlerazzle Posts: 998 ✭✭✭
    It's been fun reading all of these.

    There once was a metallic blank,
    Who envied his kin at the bank.
    But, to become a coin,
    He had to "loin"
    'Bout presses and dies...so he drank!image
    Markets (governments) can remain irrational longer than an investor can remain solvent.
  • razzlerazzle Posts: 998 ✭✭✭
    Some rarities found in a folder,
    seemed destined for a DH Holder.
    Though raw they were pretty,
    to avoid gettin' gritty,
    they were slabbed, and appear even "golder."

    OK, who started this...?image
    Markets (governments) can remain irrational longer than an investor can remain solvent.
  • Some board members can be somewhat aloof,
    Making comments that may stretch the truth.
    The police they are watchin'
    So stop your debauchin'
    Be nice or y'all will go POOF!

    Resectfully Submitted,
    Garrow
  • speetyspeety Posts: 5,424
    A silver dollar made in CC
    Bearing the date of ‘73
    Only 2,300 were ever struck
    And with some money and a little luck
    Now rests in my hands staring at me! image
    Want to buy an auction catalog for the William Hesslein Sale (December 2, 1926). Thanks to all those who have helped us obtain the others!!!

  • xbobxbob Posts: 1,979
    A collector was moaning and groaning
    about a coin worthy of owning
    It slipped into his mouth
    later came out "down south"
    and now it is blessed with great toning!

    image
    -Bob
    collections: Maryland related coins & exonumia, 7070 Type set, and Video Arcade Tokens.
    The Low Budget Y2K Registry Set

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