Did Virgil Brand write numismatic poetry?
Longacre
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I started to read QDB's Virgil Brand book. QDB makes reference to the fact that Brand both composed and read numismatic poetry. I think this is quite unusual, but I was wondering if anyone else heard of this. Does anyone know if the poetry was published or otherwise found after Brand's death? I love numismatics, but I don't think I would ever write poetry about it.
Always took candy from strangers
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
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I buy some coins.
I buy some more coins.
I buy still more coins.
When I die.
My dealers' businesses die with me.
I have the power.
Whose numisadventures were many...
‘Bout eBay and also fake toning,
But here’s a quick hint:
Don’t start on the Mint,
For that one will start constant droning!
To buy what you like – even widgets!
You know more than I
What pleases your eye,
And also they cost fewer digits.
There once was a dealer named Laura,
Exuding a confident aura,
The wannabes fear
Her tone, quite severe --
On those threads, we have a plethora.
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A lonely old house, full of empty rooms
And the dust of centuries gloomily looms
on the horizon. It seeps and it sags,
The broken window panes droop and drag.
A child! A child, humblest of all,
Skulks in the house and slinks down its old hall.
The house, shocked out of slumber by the mere
Presence of the waif, starts and groans for fear
of losing its solitude. The small boy
scampers about in pure youthful joy.
Stealthily I glint from a far corner.
A gleam catches in the vagrant's young eye,
he hurries to the corner and tries to pry
A SOMETHING from its ancient entombment.
Now I struggle to resist my capture.
Slowly, determinedly the old treasure
is worked free. The dust of years of censure
from the outside billows in the staid air
of the house.
---------------- My thick dusty robe falls bare.
I gleam and shine in the half-light darkness,
reflecting in his eyes a hungriness
a longing for times gone by forgotten.
Delicately, reverently the small
boy pockets his treasure, turns toward the hall
and silently exits the old house, still
looming o'er the world; it forever will.
A poem by me.
-Amanda
I'm a YN working on a type set!
My Buffalo Nickel Website Home of the Quirky Buffaloes Collection!
Proud member of the CUFYNA
the tail feathers one couldn't see, uh
They were brazen and bold
and quite Rare, it is told
but PCGS will not grade it for ME uh
``https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5
That question brings arguments still.
The usual stance –
The coin has no chance
‘Til use of the paper we kill.
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
<< <i>This thread is getting way too deep for me. Does anyone know if Brand's works are available?
I googled it and couldn't find anything.
-Amanda
I'm a YN working on a type set!
My Buffalo Nickel Website Home of the Quirky Buffaloes Collection!
Proud member of the CUFYNA
<< <i>This thread is getting way too deep for me. Does anyone know if Brand's works are available?
I'm not aware of any -- I checked but cursory searches revealed nothing.
--
The seasoned collectors find fault
That newbies still buy from the Vault.
That so-called BU
Is whizzed, to be true --
In wounds they now bear, here comes salt!