That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 14, 2023

The banker decided to take his mind off work by looking at his coin collection.

Carl, demonstrating that if you are rich enough, you don’t need to have good taste.

Samual, trying to find the coin with the chocolate inside.

Carlisle used a magnifying glass to count the raisins in his tart!

Though the odds of finding a cockroach in the caviar were slim, Calvin felt the overwhelming need to make sure.

Wendel never gave up his hope of finding a pearl in his oyster.

Snuffboxes. And some people still pay crazy money for them today.

After the dog swallowed his cuff link Sherman spent the next month searching it’s scat for the family heirloom.

Last one I promise. Having ordered a dozen small Dominoes pizzas with everything Herchel felt compelled to verify that indeed, everything was on them.

Not only is it a refreshing aperitif. but it’s a tarnish remover.

Thinking he was rich,Harold discovered his collection of coins were only sand dollars.

I think he’s that guy from Antiques Road Show, it’s just that he’s not wearing one of his usual outlandish suits. Maybe he got married and now his wife dresses him?

The latest in sighs of wealth, gold plated drink coasters

Helmut has a discerning eye/ which he goes to some pains to apply/ but to his disappointment/ that thing in his ointment/ really IS nothing more than a fly.

Little known fact: The first frisbees were small metal disks men jovially threw at one another in gentlemen’s clubs (as pictured above). Thus further proving that we men can be quite stupid.

And this is a rare first issue coaster from Chi-Chi’s circa 1975. See how closely it resembles the coaster from Casa Gallardo circa 1976.

Reginald Van Gleason III is a little startled that somebody’s replaced his cocktail shaker and martini glass with a magnifying glass and a specimen.

Charlie Chan and the “Case of the Counterfeit Belt Buckle.”

“Why, yes, I do have Prince Albert in a can, right here. Why do you ask?”

Watson: I’m sorry Holmes but the guy paid you with phony worthless coins!

Bertrand was absolutely chuffed when he finally completed the whole set of Donald Trump commemorative pogs…

The guy from Antiques Road Show steeling himself to tell you that you have a forgery.

The Banker Itzinger: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings by Ludwig Knaus" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and chose the first Category: link found, and once there, search for the text 1885 and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translated most webpages if necessary) about this roughly lifesize painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3148 (June 14, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 7 works by him have been used here (8 times total, including 1 repeat), the November 18, 2020, strip being the prior. The still available artist info URLs in my comment there are here links in my blog comment.

This buckle hides my driver’s license, a credit card, and a multi-tool with a knife, pliers, and bottle opener. I never go anywhere without it.

His buddies all call him “Itz”/ his money financed the Blitz/ He’s earned numerous millions/ by bombing civilians/ but he really does not give two sh**s…

This one’s creeping me out. He looks too much like me, with better clothes and a better haircut.

he never gets to use his condom collection, but he wishes for a better day.

Benicio Del Toro, retired actor and now tuna can tops collector..

“I sympathize with your predicament, Herr Roterhut, but I assure you these ‘Drumpfmarks’ are NOT legal tender…”

For tomorrow: Rigoletto is plagued by regrets:/ it’s gotten as bad as it gets !/ To his grave consternation/ He finds no consolation/ when he turns to his prized marionettes../// Marionettes chorus: “It wasn’t too long ago/ that he was the star of the show/ Though he chose to control us/ we have offered him solace/ since he’s recently been brought low..”

/// Here’s The Banker Itzinger, respected

for medallions and art he collected.

How he bought massive medals,

cast from rich precious metals,

was suspected, but never detected.

/// Those with funds in his bank had been yearning

to increase what deposits were earning.

Some had questions intensive

about hobbies expensive,

but they all would lose interest (in learning).

/// His bank’s losses had no paper trail,

so Itzinger would not go to jail.

He had paid men with clout

to get his bank bailed out.

He lived large and was too big to fail.

She was selling sea shells by the sea shore. So I bought some.

Pre-internet p0rn