A different sort of contest

A different sort of contest - LAST CHANCE

Remember that 1988 quarter with no mintmark, that I promised to give away in a contest?

Well, here's the thing - We all know sayings like Franklin's "A penny saved is a penny earned", but how many variations are there on such comments, such as "A penny saved is an English coin added to the collection"?

Between now and midnight Pacific Daylight Time on April 19, post your own example. Shortly after that a secret panel of judges will choose what they consider the top five entries, and a poll will be taken of the forum membership to choose the winner.

Let's see some originality guys and gals!​

Numismatic subjects are preferred, but there's no ban on other sayings, like "A Rolling Stone gathers no musical awards".

 

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Good fences make bad coin dealers.

 

Is Marianne the only one interested?

 

If a slab is cracked, and no one is around to hear it, is the coin still AU55?

 

Roy, I was going to do a contest where people made up expressions that combined numismatics with sports announcing in the style of Chick Hearn. "That Franklin has flown his last kite!" But then I figured no one would play. Me, I love goofy word games.

There's no fool like a gold fool.

 

I'm still trying to think of a good one.....

Speedy

 

Little Benjamin was a short,unattractive man with a long unkempt beard.One day,while strolling along a deserted beach,he found a gold Spanish escudo that had washed in from the tide.Unknown to him,it was a magic coin and as he rubbed it,a genie appeared and granted him any wish he desired.Never having had a girlfriend,Benjamin requested a beautiful woman to marry.The genie told him that this would be done but with one stipulation,he must never shave off his beard and if he were ever to do so,he would immediately be turned into a Grecian urn for all eternity.....Years passed and the promise was forgotten,combined with the nagging of his still stunning wife to shave,he finally submitted and immediately was transformed into a 4 foot tall brass urn with pictures of little bearded Greek soldiers prancing around the rim.



Moral of the story...A Benny shaved is a Benny urned.

P.S.this is not an official contest entry,the subject matter just reminded me of this old "shaggy dog" joke

 

An honest man's quandary. A penny in the purse or bread for the belly...


Bone

 

"Don't take any wooden fractional coins equal to 1/20th of a dollar..."

"Hey, brother, can you spare a 1916-D Mercury dime..."

"Here's a quarter, call someone who grades..."

 

... more:

"Give me Walking Liberty, or give me death"

"Every cloud has a .900 silver lining"

(Read like a 1940's mystery novel) "It was a 'quarter' to midnight when I heard that someone dropped the 'dime' on 'Buck', so his life really wasn't worth a plugged 'nickel'. That's when I told my secretary, 'Penny', "I 'half' to knock some 'cents' into him or he's going to wind up as another 'token' statistic".

 

Scotty, you have mutant powers. I'm jealous.

 

A penny found was a penny lost.

Charlie

 

Early to bed....early to rise....makes a man happy, on the way to the coin show!

Speedy

 

If I had a nickel for every time I bought a nickel, I'd still be a few grand short.


To coin a phrase lightly toned-

And if you buy that I've got a bridge in Brooklyn I can sell you for a RARE State Qurater.

Find a penny pick it up,most of the time it looks like it was ran over by a Mack truck.

A Dyslexic gang memeber " I Capped a Bust in his ***" --FYI to bust a cap is to shoot someone ,if you didnt know.

Money is the root of all collecting-

 

All that glitters is not gold, but Sacagawea's are cool anyway

Another day, another dollar to spend on coins.

Behind every cloud is a silver lining filled with Morgan Dollars

Collectors of a feather flock together

Born with a silver dollar is his mouth

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your denarii

I wouldn't touch that cleaned nickel with a 10' pole

If at first you don't succeed, buy, buy again

If it ain't broke, don't clean it

 

A watched Morgan never tones (naturally, of course).

A man who is his own lawyer probably has vastly more money to spend on his coin collection.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... [and confirmed by a panel of experts assigned by a third party grading service for a reasonable fee. - your friends at ANACS]

 

A penny saved, is not recycled!

A Dime in the hand is worth two nickels.

How many Roosevelt's does it take to change the clock...ZERO, they can't tell the dime!

And here's an original ( I made it up) non-numismatic one...

Where there's a will there's a way, but where there's a way there's a way around it.

Confuscious say, you never know...'til you find out!

Thant's all I can come up with for now! Mickey

 

A Stich in Time Saves a Dime

 

Momma always said life is like a man's coin collection - you never know what you're get

 

OK, I just can't stop; here's more:

"He who laughs last is usually the coin dealer"

"I like Ike, especially when it's an MS-70 example"

QUESTION: What does a planchet do after the annealing process, but before entering circulation? ANSWER: It goes to die.

"... the shark couldn't afford his $5.95 dinner bill because all he had on him was a fin."