Coin Sayings

JeffH · October 14, 2013, 05:30:55 AM

A list of more;
•He who pays the piper calls the tune
•If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
•Money is a good servant, but a bad master
•For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. [1 Timothy 6:10] Usually misquoted as "Money is the root of all evil". *
•Money isn't everything
•Money makes money
•You can't take it with you when you die

* Does that mean we (collectors) are all evil?!

ausjack · October 14, 2013, 06:40:06 AM

yes to the final one Jeff, some are just more :diablo: :laugh2:

Unicorn · October 23, 2013, 08:10:18 AM

In response to the saying money doesn't grow on trees ......
http://www.news.com.au/technology/business-technology/csiro-scientists-have-found-gold-growing-on-gum-trees-near-wudinna-on-the-eyre-peninsula/story-fn5lic6c-1226744812235

JeffH · October 23, 2013, 08:32:34 AM

And what about the quantity of gold in seawater? Google it and find out how much untold wealth is just drifting around.
Of course no one has found an economical method of extracting it (plenty of scams though).

nealeffendi · October 25, 2013, 03:39:25 PM

What about the Boys scouts "Bob a job"
filthy lucre
buck private
a bob each way
worth his weight in gold
and that classic line from Blazing Saddles "You talk purdier than a 20 dolla whore"

JeffH · October 25, 2013, 03:55:27 PM

I'm not sure that the "buck" in buck private has any coin connotation. But, thanks for the others.
Buck Private-Andrew Sisters

nealeffendi · October 25, 2013, 05:18:47 PM

Quote from: 'JeffH' pid='32197' dateline='1382678727'I'm not sure that the "buck" in buck private has any coin connotation. But, thanks for the others.
Buck Private-Andrew Sisters

The term Buck Private is an American reference to the pay of Privates in the US army (until 1941 IIRC). Their pay was a dollar (buck) a day.
In the British military you also had the Kings shilling.

Money makes the world go round
Worth a kings ransom
If you have to ask the price you can't afford it
penny dreadful
a coin for the ferryman
a licence to print money
Mr moneybags
Please don't ask for credit as refusal often offends

Goldseeker · October 25, 2013, 05:29:08 PM

Wasn't the "Kings Shilling" given to anyone that enlisted at the start of one's Military career.

In accepting the "Kings Shilling", you were in actual fact 'bought by the King as being his "slave".

nealeffendi · October 25, 2013, 05:37:49 PM

Quote from: 'Goldseeker' pid='32206' dateline='1382684348'Wasn't the "Kings Shilling" given to anyone that enlisted at the start of one's Military career.

In accepting the "Kings Shilling", you were in actual fact 'bought by the King as being his "slave".

Not a slave, but no longer free as you were subject to the Kings Regulations in military discipline.

millionaires row
dollar dazzler
cash on the nose
cash cow
million dollar smile
money talks, bullsh!t walks
more bang for your buck

Triggersmob · October 25, 2013, 07:42:01 PM

Don't know about the King's shilling, when you joined the army,
but here is the King's badge (button), for when you left the army.

Goldseeker · October 25, 2013, 10:07:20 PM

Quote from: 'nealeffendi' pid='32209' dateline='1382684869'
Quote from: 'Goldseeker' pid='32206' dateline='1382684348'Wasn't the "Kings Shilling" given to anyone that enlisted at the start of one's Military career.

In accepting the "Kings Shilling", you were in actual fact 'bought by the King as being his "slave".

Not a slave, but no longer free as you were subject to the Kings Regulations in military discipline.

millionaires row
dollar dazzler
cash on the nose
cash cow
million dollar smile
money talks, bullsh!t walks
more bang for your buck

Thats what I meant in saying "slave". You are now under the kings Rules and regulations.