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NUMISMATIC JOKES
Last week a reader requested numismatic jokes. Here are a few.
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John Dirnbauer writes: Guy walks into a bar and orders twelve shots of Tequila. Bartender lines 'em up. Guy starts to quickly shoot 'em down. Bartender says "hey buddy, slow down . . . what's the hurry? Guy says "if you had what I have, you'd drink 'em fast too." Bartender says "what do you have?" Guy says " 75 cents." Gosia Fort writes: My most favorite joke of all is the old Polish numismatic joke. My problem is how to translate the humor based on the play of words. And even if I live up to the linguistic challenge, will it be still funny today when Polish currency is strong while the joke refers to its worthlessness? Anyway since I cannot concentrate on work and I keep thinking about how to preserve the gist of this joke in translation, here it is:
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Pete Smith writes: There are a couple of websites with coin collecting jokes. I didn't think any of them were funny. I do recall one that I thought was funny thirty-five years ago. Did you know that 64 Kennedy Halves are now worth thirty-two dollars? Maybe you had to be there.
Maybe if you wait long enough, there will be nothing funny about it anymore. -Editor Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@gmail.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum All Rights Reserved. NBS Home Page Contact the NBS webmaster 
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