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I'm A Numismatic Poet And Didn't Know It

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 Posted 02/02/2009  12:37 am Show Profile   Check GO's eBay Listings Bookmark this topic Add GO to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
OK so I'm bored. So bored in fact that I want to see if we have any creative geniuses here.

Write a poem dealing with any facet of numismatics.

It can be long, short, sad, funny, obscure, or even downright idiotic if you'd like. There doesn't have to be any rhyme or reason. Just entertain me.
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 Posted 02/02/2009  01:12 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Buzzard to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Fifteen rolls of halves
The sweet promise of silver
slides through my fingers
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 Posted 02/02/2009  07:29 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add manila galleon trade to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I have a song for you instead.

1 little 2 little 3 little indians
4 little 5 little 6 little indians
7 little 8 little 9 little indians
10 little Indian cents

Sorry, I sing out of tune
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 Posted 02/02/2009  07:54 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
There was a collector from Nome,
Who liked to buy coins from old Rome.
But the dealers at hand
Had no coins from that land,
So he bought modern coins and went home.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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 Posted 02/02/2009  08:58 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add gettingbrowned to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'm feeling a mounting strain in my eyes
I wish that these cents were bigger in size
I can hold 'em alright
The problem's my sight
But I'll keep searching till the Amazon dries
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 Posted 02/02/2009  09:19 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add malissadawn to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
ok I cant take credit for this one! I found it online and thought it was funny

enjoy everyone

Dedicated to All Coin Collectors' Wives

Author Unknown.

Here's a saying that you have all heard before, I think,
"Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink."
Shipwrecked people shout it, as they drift upon the sea,
It sure is bad, but the saddest cry I've heard in my whole life
Is the one you hear, when you lend and ear, to the Coin Collector's Wife.

Money, money everywhere, but not a dime to spend;
If this keeps up, our marriage is coming to an end.
Money in every dresser drawer and money on the shelf;
But there isn't one thin dime to spend upon myself.
Lincoln cents and Mercury dimes, and Washington quarters, too!
Some of them are old and worn, and some of them are new.

The paycheck that he gets doesn't seem to mean a thing to me,
'Cause hubby needs a 1909-S Lincoln VDB.
As soon as he gets the coin, he'll be looking for some other;
I think I'd be better off if I went on home to mother.
One day in desperation, I took half a dollar;
He said it was a commemorative, and you should have heard him holler!

Another time I took a coin that he said was a "proof;"
When I told him I spent it, I thought he'd raise the roof!
With all that money 'round the house, we're really very poor;
I'm getting sick and tired of it, of that I'm really sure!
So, I advise you, single girls, if you want a happy life;
Don't marry a coin collector and be a Coin Collector's Wife,
Shouting, "Money money everywhere and not a dime to spend;"
Don't ever let a coin collector be more than just a friend.
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 Posted 02/02/2009  09:28 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DL20K to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'm not really good at rhyming in English.. but here goes:

Once upon a time,
3 cents were mine,
I wanted to sell,
Nobody bid well,
No reason to whine,
It still is mine!

P.S. this would be a great idea for a contest
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 Posted 02/02/2009  09:47 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ceaton to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
This is a good idea for a contest. So far I like gettingbrowned, very good.

There once was a man from Nantucket
With so many cents in a bucket
Searching and searching all day with glee
Only to never find that S VDB

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 Posted 02/02/2009  11:32 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CuprousCoin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

Always looking for Indian cents in Red
And will continue till I'm blind or dead

There's nothing wrong with chocolate brown
These too make me happy as a clown

Amazing hues appear on this copper color
Rainbows I've seen like nowhere other

It strains my wallet to purchase them today
Hurt as it might, I'll have it no other way


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 Posted 02/02/2009  12:05 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Round metal objects
The history you show us
Brings joy to our lives
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 Posted 02/02/2009  12:46 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add steelie to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Another Haiku:

LWC?
No, LMC all I see.
Where VDB Be?
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 Posted 02/02/2009  1:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Daggit to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Obsessed you say
How absurd...I am not!
I just want to keep
The few Lincoln's I've got

There's Varieties and Errors
To be found don't you know
Theres RPM's, Wide AM's
And the odd DDO

It's just a few thousand
well...perhaps a few more
Can't be rid of these now
Hard to say whats in store!

I won't go on boring you
I know you must go
Don't trip on the bank boxes
Those aren't searched you know

So thanks for your concern
And one last thing to say...
Can I check through your change
Before you go on your way.
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 Posted 02/02/2009  1:49 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DL20K to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

Quote:
Don't trip on the bank boxes
Those aren't searched you know


Perfect. If this was a contest, I'd vote for this one!
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02/02/2009 1:49 pm
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Ok, I'm obviously very bored at work today! Hahaha..

There once was a man from Des Moines
He had a drawer FULL of old coins
Till one day his Son; a curious young one
Spent them all on some toys

"My Barbers!' the man screamed, when he came home that day
"But Daddy they were old and ugly, I say!"
"Son, those had value; way more than face, Please tell me where you spent them! What's the name of this place?"

They hopped in the car and the child led the way
to the toy shop on the corner of Church and Main
"We must hurry son!" the father was yelling
"The fate of my Barbers; There's just no telling!"

Finally they arrived in front of the store
And ran inside, like a tornado of sorts
"Are you the man that sold my son this Frisbee?"
"The names Mr. Mack and Yes, that was me"

"Thank God!" Yelled the man "You have my coins!
My son came in here and used them for toys.
I'll pay you face value, can I please have them back?
I'll do anything, I beg you, please Mr. Mack!"

The man thought for a moment and went into the back
and returned ever promptly with a large burlap sack
"I'll tell you what... You can have them all back
But can I keep one for my wife, the sweet Mrs. Mack?"

"Sure you can have one, choose any you want"
So the shop keep reached in and pulled one from the top
"Now be on your way. It's time me to close"
"Thank you, Mr. Mack, How I'll ever repay you, I do not know"

Now back at home, the man began to think
"I should have looked at which coin I let him take"
Suddenly he realized, with much duress
"Oh no! Oh God! my 1896-S!!"
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They say the economy is bad.
That coin collecting is a fad.

It would seem wise to save your money
But that 1914-D I just bought is a honey.

The dates that are key
I still gather with glee.

It is bad luck to have an obcession.
When we are in the midst of a recession.

Who knows how it will end
As I look round the bend

But it sure does seem funny
This love of old money

(Applause here)
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 Posted 02/02/2009  6:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DNA to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
There is a man who appreciates the classics.
He saved many old coins and got into numismatics.

This man likes to cruise in his old classic car.
So last Friday night, he stops in a bar.

He hears a well-dressed man, saying something quite funny:
"After the crash, it's the coin guys who have all the money."

He goes: "I was watching TV with rare coins in an auction, and frankly the prices were really quite shockin'. Months after the crash, our economy's in a pickle, and some guy spent $4500 for a Jefferson nickel."

Now our coin-collecting man who cruised there in his old car, did not want to start a fight and get thrown out of the bar.

Our man is polite, and a model of decorum.
Instead of arguing in a bar, he'll post on Coin Community forum!

(PS: A true story set to rhyme, if not precise meter!)

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02/02/2009 6:18 pm
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