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V19 2016 INDEX E-SYLUM ARCHIVE

The E-Sylum: Volume 19, Number 20, May 15, 2016, Article 13

If it was in The E-Sylum I can't seem to find it, but I recently read an article about an old 45 rpm record on the "S.V.D.B." label with songs with numismatic titles. So guess what I just found in my garage? A copy of the record I'd forgotten I had. -Editor

Benjamin Jefmer is, one could assume, a coin collector and he's written two country songs to tell us all about it. Well, okay, he only wrote one song, as both sides of this single have the exact same melody, but he at least gave them different lyrics. Both are about coin collecting, though.

At first, I looked for a metaphor in lyrics such as "Collecting has its sad times, too 'cuz it happened once to me/ I found a Lincoln extr-y fine of 1914/ But when i turned it over, what I saw, it was a shame/ Someone used a pocket knife to carve on it his name", but I found nothin'. I tried to discern a double entendre of some kind in "I started out collecting coins not many years ago/ Thought I'd put a few coins back and try to save some dough / Then one day, I bought a book/ The little folding kind / To start my set of Lincoln cents that I felt sure to find", but there is none. They're about COINS and that's that, Buster.

Also, I learned a new word from this record. "Numismatic" refers to a person who studies coins (and paper money, too). Let's all use it in a sentence today.

To read the complete article, see:
If You're a Coin Collector / The Numismatic (http://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/benjamin_jefmer/
if_youre_a_coin_collector___the_numismatic/)

Click on an image to see a larger version in our Flickr archive. Pretty cool, huh? So would anyone have a copy of the "Vantage Recording Company catalog listing all available records on Numismatics and Philately"? As far as I know, there are the only two numismatic records the firm produced.

I wish I could say I'd listened to them, but I acquired them long after the days when record players became obsolete. I know vinyl's making a comeback, but I've got nothing in the house that can play these. The same with this:

Twenty cassette tapes with talks by Stanley Apfelbaum, Grover Criswell, John J. Ford, Jr., Harry Forman, David Ganz, William Gay, Charles Hoskins, Donald Hoppe, George Mallis, Herbert Melnick, Walter Pershke, Ed Rochette, Leroy Van Allen, and Luis Vigdor.

Great numismatic ephemera if nothing else, but the audio content of some of these is priceless.

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